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

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

Jeremy Bentham

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Jeremy Bentham

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

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

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