Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. — Jeremy Bentham Ignorance Copy Share Image
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case. — Jeremy Bentham Cases Copy Share Image
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism Copy Share Image
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul. — Jeremy Bentham Anti christ Copy Share Image
“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.” — Jeremy Bentham Poetry Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham Atheism Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to… — Jeremy Bentham Constitution Copy Share Image
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over… — Jeremy Bentham Breathe Copy Share Image
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can… — Jeremy Bentham Animal ethics Copy Share Image
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts. — Jeremy Bentham Natural Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Acquire Copy Share Image
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. — Jeremy Bentham Evil Copy Share Image
“if you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all,… — Jeremy Bentham Crime Copy Share Image
“What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all… — Jeremy Bentham Posterity Copy Share Image
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right… — Jeremy Bentham Direct Copy Share Image
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham Cost Copy Share Image
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen… — Jeremy Bentham Body Copy Share Image
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the… — Jeremy Bentham Firsts Copy Share Image
“He will repeat it boldly (for it has been said before him), truths that form the basis of political and moral science… — Jeremy Bentham Science Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come… — Jeremy Bentham Aids Copy Share Image
“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects.… — Jeremy Bentham Antipathy Copy Share Image
Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow… — Jeremy Bentham Able Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible… — Jeremy Bentham Animal Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Advantage Copy Share Image
“Where the penal provision, though established, is not conveyed to the notice of the person on whom it seems intended that it… — Jeremy Bentham Laws Copy Share Image
“Ravaillac assassinated one of the best and wisest of sovereigns, at a time when a good and wise sovereign, a blessing at… — Jeremy Bentham King Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Beauty Copy Share Image
An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right… — Jeremy Bentham Absolutes Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Causes Copy Share Image
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. — Jeremy Bentham Crime Copy Share Image
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. — Jeremy Bentham Dry Copy Share Image
