Jeremy Bentham

"Of all the passions, vanity is the most universal and the most operative."

"In a word, self-love is the only basis of what can properly be called virtue."

"The human race is governed by two sovereign masters: pleasure and pain."

"The greatest felicity of the greatest number is the measure of justice."

"Publicity is the very soul of justice."

"The demand for certainty is one of the great regulators of the imaginations."

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

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"Natural rights is simple nonsense."

"There is no such thing as any sort of durable and stable justice."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The pain of labour is the secret of riches."

"In matters of policy, the voice of the people is the voice of truth."

"The use of the term 'natural' is apt to be attended by consequences that are mischievous."

"To refrain from interposing is often the highest of all virtues."

"Bad government makes for bad citizens."

"Sincerity is the source of all real and lasting goodness."

"The notion of natural rights is one of those ideas whose tendency is pernicious."

"The pretence of independence is a mere fiction."

"In the habit of reflection all the arts and sciences have their origin."

"Reason is the sovereign of reason; experience the sovereign of reason itself."

"The basis of virtue is that it is conducive to happiness."

"Legislation is the art of ordering human beings."

"Beauty is as it does; virtue is as it does."

"The whole art of government is the art of being honest."

"Men are guided by their interests; nations are guided by considerations of utility."

"Habit is the product of repetition; repetition is the mother of habit."

"The true object of science is the application of science to life."

"The greatest evil is that which causes the greatest suffering."