Jeremy Bentham

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

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

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

"He who is devoid of the power of imagination is devoid of the power of reasoning."

"The man who has nothing to do with anything but his own private interest is not a virtuous man."

"Morality and legislation have the same object—to increase happiness and diminish suffering."

"It is the custom of every plodding, mediocre intellect to find the extraordinary in nature extraordinary."

"The law is a ass."

"Prejudice apart, the worditself, when used with strict chronological propriety, signifies the religious sentiment."

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

"Knowledge goes hand in hand with time."

"The way to be nowhere is to go everywhere."

"Sincerity has a compelling power which no false statement can ever possess."

"The habit of thinking under established forms is so strong in men, that they cannot break loose from them."

"Delay in justice is injustice."

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

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

"Expectation is the greatest and the only enemy of mankind."

"Obedience is the mother of success and the father of safety."

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied."

"The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by aid of Human Reason."

"The greatest happiness principle is the foundation of utilitarianism."

"Religion is the most violent of all forces."

"Whoever attempts anything without being assured of the propriety of it, is rash and precipitate."

"The business of government is to promote the happiness of society."

"Recollect that the manner of speaking of a thing which is presented to you in the guise of an axiom is, in truth, a matter which is susceptible of justification."

"To know what everybody knows is to know nothing."

"Time is that wherein there is a difference between earlier and later."