Jeremy Bentham quotes

" The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? " # Suffering

" The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" Every law is an infraction of liberty. " # Law and Lawyers # Liberty # Freedom

" Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. " # Law and Lawyers # Punishment # Ignorance

" The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array. " # Teachers and Teaching # War # Army and Navy

" 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 # Conscience # Happiness

" Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. " # Tyranny # Nations # Democracy