The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
JEREMY BENTHAM It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of ri...
JEREMY BENTHAM The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature....
JEREMY BENTHAM Every law is an infraction of liberty.
JEREMY BENTHAM Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
JEREMY BENTHAM Three acres and a cow.
JEREMY BENTHAM It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of t...
JEREMY BENTHAM The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full mil...
JEREMY BENTHAM Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
JEREMY BENTHAM The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
JEREMY BENTHAM As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible...
JEREMY BENTHAM The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can t...
JEREMY BENTHAM No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of be...
JEREMY BENTHAM He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it...
JEREMY BENTHAM . . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...
JEREMY BENTHAM Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every...
JEREMY BENTHAM Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
JEREMY BENTHAM The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?
JEREMY BENTHAM Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...
JEREMY BENTHAM 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 The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?
JEREMY BENTHAM All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
JEREMY BENTHAM Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they go...
JEREMY BENTHAM The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power compe...
JEREMY BENTHAM Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand u...
JEREMY BENTHAM Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder
JEREMY BENTHAM If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of jus...
JEREMY BENTHAM Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet
JEREMY BENTHAM The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
JEREMY BENTHAM The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
JEREMY BENTHAM What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can ...
JEREMY BENTHAM Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
JEREMY BENTHAM It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of t...
JEREMY BENTHAM The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature....
JEREMY BENTHAM Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
JEREMY BENTHAM I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination whi...
GEORGE BENTHAM Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they g...
JOHN BENTHAM I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season w...
GEORGE BENTHAM Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they go...
JOHN BENTHAM There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in.
DEV BENTHAM Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.
JEREMY GILLEY Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
JEREMY CORBYN When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found g...
JEREMY SISTO I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and go...
JEREMY CLARKSON The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most ico...
JEREMY SCOTT Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
JEREMY IRVINE I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all thei...
JEREMY LIN Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final a...
JEREMY RIFKIN Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on...
JEREMY IRONS I don't think the BBC supporting digital switchover is top slicing. Top slicing is putting the l...
JEREMY HUNT There are wonderful things happening all around the world. From Nova Scotia to Kerala, Bristol to Me...
JEREMY IRONS Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JEREMY SCHWARTZ Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ...
JEREMY COLLIER Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of '...
JEREMY ALLAIRE Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died ...
JEREMY CORBYN What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA te...
JEREMY RIFKIN What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies t...
JEREMY RIFKIN There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerless...
JEREMY STOPPELMAN What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rig...
JEREMY CORBYN I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romant...
JEREMY RENNER The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh...
JEREMY CLARKSON The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a sh...
JEREMY CLARKSON We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, the...
JEREMY IRONS Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nig...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilt...
JEREMY TAYLOR Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing e...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 Relieve...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Love is careful...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nig...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing w...
JEREMY TAYLOR I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
JEREMY TAYLOR A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.
JEREMY TAYLOR He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath mor...
JEREMY TAYLOR Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Ni...
JEREMY TAYLOR I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done bette...
JEREMY LIN I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film le...
JEREMY IRONS He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more g...
JEREMY TAYLOR There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easil...
JEREMY SISTO It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive i...
JEREMY TAYLOR No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulan...
JEREMY TAYLOR No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire mo...
TAYLOR JEREMY [A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a s...
JEREMY CLARKSON Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gi...
JEREMY COLLIER As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis...
JEREMY COLLIER Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
JEREMY IRONS True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
JEREMY COLLIER What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
JEREMY TAYLOR Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
JEREMY TAYLOR Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
JEREMY TAYLOR Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.
JEREMY TAYLOR Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after he...
JEREMY TAYLOR He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
JEREMY TAYLOR Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do ar...
JEREMY COLLIER God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of al...
JEREMY TAYLOR People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
JEREMY COLLIER Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
JEREMY THORPE How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by...
JEREMY COLLIER Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -- asleep. When w...
JEREMY COLLIER Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
JEREMY TAYLOR Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
JEREMY TAYLOR He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and ...
JEREMY TAYLOR Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonia...
JEREMY TAYLOR The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
JEREMY COLLIER It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it...
JEREMY TAYLOR Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing the...
JEREMY STOPPELMAN Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare ...
JEREMY CORBYN The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, o...
JEREMY RIFKIN Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
JEREMY TAYLOR I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compa...
JEREMY IRONS I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discover...
JEREMY IRONS I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in K...
JEREMY SCOTT From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all ...
JEREMY LIN I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Clevel...
JEREMY CLARKSON The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shi...
JEREMY GRANTHAM When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects...
JEREMY RIFKIN Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled w...
JEREMY CORBYN The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first ...
JEREMY RENNER Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really...
JEREMY LIN We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward,...
JEREMY IRONS The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years ...
JEREMY RIFKIN You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.
JEREMY SISTO Love is friendship set on fire.
JEREMY TAYLOR I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me w...
JEREMY CORBYN The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
JEREMY PAXMAN Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
JEREMY TAYLOR I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers,...
JEREMY LIN Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives aro...
JEREMY GILLEY I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.
JEREMY LONDON I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man...
JEREMY RENNER When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.
JEREMY HUNT If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy...
JEREMY LONDON Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him wi...
JEREMY TAYLOR Our view is that consumer finance - what people think of as retail finance - that arena is ripe for ...
JEREMY ALLAIRE So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narro...
JEREMY IRONS There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there'...
JEREMY CORBYN Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we'...
JEREMY CORBYN There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.
JEREMY CORBYN We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone shoul...
JEREMY CORBYN We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. T...
JEREMY CORBYN We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
JEREMY CORBYN I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm in...
JEREMY CORBYN I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the S...
JEREMY CORBYN To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.
JEREMY CORBYN I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standard...
JEREMY CORBYN Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.
JEREMY CORBYN I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would wan...
JEREMY CORBYN Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.
JEREMY CORBYN I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along...
JEREMY CORBYN I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
JEREMY CORBYN Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.
JEREMY CORBYN We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
JEREMY CORBYN I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
JEREMY CORBYN I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
JEREMY CORBYN We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we...
JEREMY CORBYN It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of thi...
JEREMY CORBYN I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
JEREMY SISTO The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, an...
JEREMY LUKE As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began...
JEREMY LLOYD The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favori...
JEREMY PIVEN Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things tha...
JEREMY LIN I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no...
JEREMY SCOTT We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by contro...
JEREMY CORBYN In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving ...
JEREMY CORBYN The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
JEREMY RENNER I looked at the circus, and I looked at the carnival, at the fun fair. But I looked at sleeping acco...
JEREMY IRONS I feel very blessed to have such wonderful cheerleaders and champions of my work.
JEREMY SCOTT I can't deal with high maintenance chicks.
JEREMY LONDON I don't get involved in personal abuse. I'm not reducing myself to that level. If people don't like ...
JEREMY CORBYN A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer; for he recognizes the truth
JEREMY ALDANA An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just e...
JEREMY IRONS Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be...
JEREMY GRANTHAM You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.
JEREMY STOPPELMAN Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the onl...
JEREMY CORBYN Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour mani...
JEREMY CORBYN It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirs...
JEREMY CORBYN For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents -...
JEREMY CORBYN With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove tha...
JEREMY LIN So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.
JEREMY RIFKIN I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
JEREMY MILLER With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how ...
JEREMY ALLAIRE Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, t...
JEREMY IRONS Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not go...
JEREMY LIN I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
JEREMY LIN I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startl...
JEREMY SCOTT Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevai...
JEREMY PAXTON You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all ...
JEREMY SCOTT Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to...
JEREMY CLARKSON I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Ka...
JEREMY SCOTT