The value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to six circumstances: 1. Its intensity. 2. Its duration. 3. Its certainty or uncertainty. 4. Its propinquity or remoteness. 5. Its fecundity. 6. Its purity.
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"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure."
"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
"I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!"
"Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts."
"The object of government is the happiness of the governed."
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Felicific Calculus)
Date: 1789
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