Crime Quote by Jeremy Bentham

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the…

— Jeremy Bentham

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

— Jeremy Bentham

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

— Jeremy Bentham

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

— Jeremy Bentham

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants…

— Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

— Jeremy Bentham

Reputation is the road to power

— Jeremy Bentham

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…

— Jeremy Bentham

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a…

— Jeremy Bentham

“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore,…

— Jeremy Bentham