Quotes about Jeremy Bentham

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure -...

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that...

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The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but rather, Can they...

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living...

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

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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing...

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

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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular...

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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is...

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It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure...

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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it...

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