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    • “The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?” ― Jeremy Bentham (An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Philosophical Classics),
    • “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
    • “... the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.” ― Jeremy Bentham.
    • “What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible of happiness? They are of two sorts: (1) Other human beings who are styled persons.

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    Discover Jeremy Bentham famous and rare quotes. Share Jeremy Bentham quotations about pleasure, lawyers and suffering. "The said truth is that it is the..."

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    • Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. Jeremy Bentham.
    • The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law. Jeremy Bentham.
    • It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham.
    • The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham.

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    Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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    A century ago it was perfectly well known that whoever had one audience of a Master in Chancery was made to pay for three, but no man heeded the enormity until it suggested to a young lawyer that i...

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    The Bentham Project at University College London. Includes a history of the Auto-Icon, Neologisms of Jeremy Bentham(words he created, including international, maximize and minimize), and details of...

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  5. www.utilitarianism.net › jeremy-benthamJeremy Bentham | Utilitarianism.net

    Prominent Quotes of Jeremy Bentham “[T]he dictates of utility are just the dictates of the most extensive and enlightened—i.e.well-advised—benevolence”. 7 “The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question.” 8

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    Full Quote. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) trained as a lawyer and founded the early 19th century school of political thought known as “Benthamism” later called utilitarianism - based on the idea that governments should act so as to promote “the greatest good of the greatest number” of people.

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    Sourced quotations by the British Philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748 — 1832) about happiness, rights and pleasure. Enjoy the best Jeremy Bentham quotes and picture quotes!

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