Bentham, Jeremy

"Knowledge is power; ignorance is submission."

"The state exists to promote the well-being of its citizens, nothing more."

"Punishment should be proportional to the offense and no more."

"If we could accurately measure pleasure and pain, we could solve all moral problems."

"The test of a first-rate government is whether it serves the happiness of all people."

"Evil is simply pleasure to those who cause it and pain to those who suffer it."

"All the arts and sciences have utility as their foundation."

"Lawyers are the great obstacles to reform and social improvement."

"The principle of utility recognizes this subjection and makes it the foundation of morals."

"Each person is the best judge of their own happiness and well-being."

"A constitution should be designed to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"The pursuit of pleasure is the only rational goal of human life."

"Government should be simple, economical, and directed to the public good."

"Truth is the foundation of all virtue; falsehood the parent of vice."

"The end of the law is the greatest happiness of those who are ruled by it."

"Man is a self-interested creature; this is the foundation of all morality."

"Charity is the duty of those who have to those who have not."

"The measure of right and wrong is the production of happiness and the prevention of misery."

"Religion is nothing but a system of imposing on the credulous."

"The greatest happiness principle is the only true morality."

"Educational reform is the foundation of all other reforms."

"The penalty for breaking the law should be proportional to the harm caused."

"Society is held together by enlightened self-interest, not by moral virtue."

"The art of good government is to make people happy."

"Pleasure and pain are the only things that matter in ethics."

"A judge who decides cases based on tradition rather than reason is an enemy of justice."

"The greatest felicity is achieved when the greatest number feel the greatest pleasure."

"Laws should be clear, simple, and publicly known to all citizens."

"The principle of utility is the only rational foundation for legislation."

"To promote the general happiness is the final end of government."