Bentham Utilitarianism Quotes & Sayings

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon. — Jeremy Bentham

The rarest of all human qualities is consistency. — Jeremy Bentham

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music. — Phil Anselmo

After 'Sin Nombre,' I just needed to take a break to go to completely different worlds. — Cary Fukunaga

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham

Everything has being through the love of God. — Julian Of Norwich

Fashion is merely the lowest form of ideology. To wear or not to wear blue jeans, to holiday or not to holiday in a particular place can contribute to social acceptance or bring upon us the full opprobrium of the group. Then, a few months or years later, we look back and our obsession, our fears of ridicule, seem a bit silly. By then, we are undoubtedly caught up in new fashions.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards) — John Ralston Saul

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. 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. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light. — Jeremy Bentham

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available. — Rick Warren