As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Facts are never as salient as feelings.

Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

Katrina did not declare a truce on Iraq.

Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing your creative energies.

Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.