Jeremy Bentham

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition."

"The purpose of life is not merely to exist, but to achieve something of value."

"In every age, there are certain truths that become apparent only with the passage of time."

"The greatest happiness principle is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"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, pain and pleasure."

"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."

"Prudence is a virtue, and imprudence a vice; but the imprudence of giving up pleasure seems not to be a vice at all."

"The Panopticon is a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind."

"In the greatest happiness principle lies the foundation of virtue and morality."

"Secrecy, being an evil, ought not to be unnecessarily created by government."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights."

"Man is not a free agent in his actions; he is governed by necessity."

"Every law is an evil for every law is an infraction of liberty."

"The only real wealth is life. But in the civilized world, it has become money."

"Interest begat good will; good will begat confidence; confidence begat truth."

"Obsequiousness is the basest of vices; resistance the noblest of virtues."

"The proper end of government is the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"Sincerity may be thus defined to be the reverse of dissimulation."

"The test of a right action is its utility."

"The more happiness, the better; the less misery, the better."

"Quantity of pleasure being equal, pushpin is as good as poetry."

"As to myself, I am indifferent to almost every thing except truth and utility."

"To know the character of a legislator, examine the laws which he has framed."

"The principle of utility is the foundation of the following observations."

"Language is the band of society and the mirror of thought."

"The veil of secrecy is the friend of roguery."

"The tyranny of custom is on the one hand one of the greatest evils."