Jeremy Bentham Quotes

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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
• Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
• The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
• Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
• The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
• All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
• Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
• The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
• The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
• Every law is an infraction of liberty.
• Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
• It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
• The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
• Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say,…
• If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
• 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…
• Reputation is the road to power
• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
• 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;…
• 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…

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