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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
— Jeremy Bentham
Nonsense on stilts
— Jeremy Bentham
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
— Jeremy Bentham
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
— Jeremy Bentham
All poetry is misrepresentation.
— Jeremy Bentham
The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
— 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 truth.
— Jeremy Bentham
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?
— Jeremy Bentham
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
— Jeremy Bentham
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
— 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 kingdom.
— Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
— Jeremy Bentham
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.
— Jeremy Bentham
The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
— Jeremy Bentham
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindnessthat is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham
Right ... is the child of law.
— Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
— Jeremy Bentham
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
— Jeremy Bentham
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
— Jeremy Bentham
He'd sworn off sex, remember? Not unless he could do it properly, humanly, heartfully.
— Dev Bentham
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
— Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
— Jeremy Bentham
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
— Jeremy Bentham
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
— Jeremy Bentham
