Quote by Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greates

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

Other quotes by 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

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Religion
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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

Category:
Poverty
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Happiness
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. – Mary MacLane

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Happiness

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. – Linda Evans

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Happiness

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. – George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton

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Happiness

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A large heart can be filled with very little. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Helping

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldnt know how to get along without it. – Walt Disney

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Life

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. – Martin H. Fischer

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Men

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. – W. Edwards Deming

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work