J. Bentham - “Nature has placed mankind under….
governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure”
Thomas Hobbes - “The life of man is…
solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
Gertrude Himmelfarb - “The greatest happiness of the greatest number…
might thus require the greatest misery of the few.”
John Broome - “It is characteristic of the utilitarian theory..
or right that rightness is derived from goodness”