Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy BenthamNature 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.
Jeremy BenthamIt is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
Jeremy BenthamIs it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
Jeremy Bentham