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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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
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What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes...
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual
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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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We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.