“The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?”
Quotes by Jeremy Bentham
“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.”
Jeremy BenthamJeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer who is best known as the founder of modern utilitarianism. He articulated the principle that the measure of right and wrong is de...