The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light. Jeremy Bentham More Quotes by Jeremy Bentham More Quotes From Jeremy Bentham Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. Jeremy Bentham politics political government Reputation is the road to power Jeremy Bentham reputation ...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. Jeremy Bentham utilitarianism consistency quality The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth. Jeremy Bentham judging trials law Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham humor law funny Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. Jeremy Bentham pretty-things dry happiness Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency. Jeremy Bentham employment race judging How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave. Jeremy Bentham liberty purpose house Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Jeremy Bentham fruit language suffering As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends. Jeremy Bentham censorship evil impossible The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. Jeremy Bentham perfection age busy The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. Jeremy Bentham accessories independence ideas There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. Jeremy Bentham pestilence atheism independent A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham moral suffering animal We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring. Jeremy Bentham growing-up kindness spring Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. Jeremy Bentham publicity government evil 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. Jeremy Bentham thanks matter thinking Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. Jeremy Bentham ignorance law feet Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it. Jeremy Bentham ignorant support asylums The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery. Jeremy Bentham regret knowing giving
