Quotes

Quotes - Bentham

The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?

Jeremy Bentham

Three acres and a cow.

Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Jeremy Bentham

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.

Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

John Bentham