The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. – Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham