If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice, those whom he calls heretics, that is, people who think, or perhaps only speak, differently upon a subject which neither party understands, he will be as much inclined to do this at one time as at another. Fanaticism never sleeps: it is never glutted: it is never stopped by philanthropy; for it makes a merit of trampling on philanthropy: it is never stopped by conscience; for it has pressed conscience into its service. Avarice, lust, and vengeance, have piety, benevolence, honour; fanaticism has nothing to oppose it. Jeremy Bentham
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...
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Thomas Hardy
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Mark Twain
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Jeremy Bentham
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;–in that of poets of amusement–in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition, –and too often both priest and lawyer have...
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
