Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

…the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Consistency

Quality

Utilitarianism

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Consistency

Practice

Track

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Animal

Moral

Suffering

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Branches

Branches Of Government

Government

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Evil

Mischief

Punishment

An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

Cutting

Idols

Would Be

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Censorship

Evil

Impossible

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Depth

Men

Real

Create 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.

Able

Add

Pain

I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Animal

Suffering

Thinking

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Ambition

Animal

Asceticism

Attorney

Branches

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Busy

Censorship

Christianity

Consistency

Cutting

Depth

Destiny

Different

Difficulty

Earth

Economics

Evil

Fall

Feet

Fiction

Flower

Foundation

Goes On

Government

Hands

Happiness

Historical

Humanity

Ideas

Idols

Ignorance

Impossible

Independence

Judging

Law

Lawyer

Looks

Math

Medicine

Men

Mind

Mischief

Moral

Numbers

Pain

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Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham

…the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Create 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.

I don’t care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

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