Quote by Jérémie Bentham
"By happiness is meant the state of the person who is, on the whole and at all times he is conscious of existing, enjoying a surplus of pleasure over pain."
More from Jérémie 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."