Jeremy Bentham Philosopher, Selective Quotations

Quotations of Jeremy Bentham

" All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so."

" The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption."

" We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness around us at so little expense. Some of them will inevitably fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others: and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring."