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Brief about Jeremy Bentham: By info that we know Jeremy Bentham was born at 1970-01-01. And also Jeremy Bentham is English Philosopher.

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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Tags: Ignorance, Law, Legal

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Tags: Hand, Often, Stars

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Tags: Evil, Mischief, Punishment

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Tags: Law, Lawyer, Power

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Tags: Conspiracy, Government, System

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

Tags: Greatest, Happiness, Truth

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

Tags: Rather, Reason, Talk

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Tags: Greatest, Happiness, Number

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Tags: Anarchy, Far, Tyranny

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Tags: Good, Greatest, Wrong

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

Tags: Community, Individual, Talk

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 day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Tags: Hell, Living, Time

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Tags: Evil, Impossible, Tell

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Tags: Law, Liberty

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Tags: Age, Busy, Knowledge

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.

Tags: Himself, Matter, Wrong

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Tags: Government, Power, Religion
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