The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

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.

Getting to know who you are is the secret to ensuring that your life will not be dull and unnoticed

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

I come as the wicked witch from the Barock era.

History - the devil's scripture

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

Growing up, I went to many schools, and I had to fit in to many different types of environments with totally different social groups. It helps me out as I move from job to job.