Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an infraction of liberty. – Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – 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
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. – Jeremy Bentham
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908