Jeremy Bentham Quotes & Quotations

Jeremy Bentham Quotes

» The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

» Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

» Every law is an infraction of liberty.

» As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

» All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

» 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 earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

» The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

» Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

» He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

» The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

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