The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?
Jeremy BenthamTags: animal-rights vegetarian moral
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy BenthamEvery law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Jeremy BenthamTags: philosophy utilitarianism
Reputation is the road to power
Jeremy BenthamCreate all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
Jeremy BenthamTags: happiness pain morality ethics misery secular-morality
Nonsense on stilts
Jeremy BenthamTags: politics
happy life and merciful death
Jeremy BenthamThe quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
Jeremy BenthamNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamTags: power government
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