Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Benthamwas an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 February 1748
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The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power competitive in ten year's time.
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...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
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Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
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Reputation is the road to power
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.