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

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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

Jeremy Bentham

#Happiness Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus”
“I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.”
“My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.”
“Successful crimes alone are justified.”
“When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.”
“[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.”
“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
“Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.”

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