Sovereign Masters Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

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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 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

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