Jeremy Bentham Quotes
17 Jeremy Bentham quotes:
"The solar industry needs stable markets. With fair and good incentives we can have solar power competitive in ten year's time."
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"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
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"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."
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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."
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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
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"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation"
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"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
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"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
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"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."
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