About Jeremy Bentham: Jeremy Bentham is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
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.
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
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.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
