Bentham, Jeremy

"The pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of truth."

"Nature rewards the industrious and punishes the idle."

"The measure of a man is not in his possessions, but in his character."

"Success is the result of preparation and opportunity."

"The life well-lived is the greatest success of all."

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"Nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters, pleasure and pain."

"The word liberty in the mouth of every man means a different thing."

"Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove."

"Prejudice apart, the rind of an orange is more deserving of philanthropic regard than the welfare of the animal."

"He that would do good to his country must have some particular knowledge of its real interests."

"There should be as little imprisonment as possible."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withheld from them but by the hand of tyranny."

"The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave."

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

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"The multiplication of happiness is the object, and ought to be the only object, of all government."

"Custom and precedent can supplant reason and common sense."

"What is the use of a government that does not make its people happy?"

"The British Constitution is nothing but a mere phantom."

"When a man says he knows a thing, he means he is certain of it."

"The serpent, too, was one of the beasts of the field. God created him, and declared him good."

"As to the happiness of mankind, principle is everything."

"Nature abhors a vacuum, and this is felt throughout life."

"The capacity of the human body to endure hardship and distance is limited; the capacity of the human will is limitless."

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

"The world is ever changing; it would be a strange world indeed if it were not."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"It is sometimes better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness, but you really have to think about it."