Jeremy Bentham
Quotes by Jeremy Bentham
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
— Jeremy Bentham
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
— Jeremy Bentham
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
— Jeremy Bentham
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
— Jeremy Bentham
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
— Jeremy Bentham