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.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Right... is the child of law.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

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.