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Every law is an infraction of liberty. - Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham

Other quotes by Jeremy Bentham

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 days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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Poverty
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness
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Jeremy Bentham
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Other Quotes from
Law
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Law

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation. – Helen P. Blavatsky

Category:
Law

He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow. – Proverb

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Law

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Law

Random Quotes

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. – Proverb

Category:
Worth

In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. – Hunter S. Thompson

Category:
Society

Life is not happening to you. Life is responding to you. – Author Unknown

Category:
Attitude

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. – Doug Coupland

Category:
Death