Jeremy Bentham Quotes

1748–1832, British Philosopher, Jurist, Political Theorist
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“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”
VerifiedPrinciples of Legislation (1830), Ch. X : Analysis of Political Good and Evil; How they are spread in society · evidenceLaw and Lawyers
“Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.”
Tyranny
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
DisputedNo reliable early source found for Jeremy Bentham. · evidenceLaw and Lawyers
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
Teachers and Teaching
“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”
Happiness
“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.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“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.”
Asceticism