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“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.”
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“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
Source : A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1
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“If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.”
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“I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up, without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away, and might never be reported missing.”
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“Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.”
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“The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.”
Source : "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.
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“I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.”
Source : "The Pumpkin Coach". Book by Louis Paul, 1935.
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“Love is the very essence of life.”
