Jeremy Bentham

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

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

Prejudice is the reasoning of the stupid.

All punishment is a mischief done, which is not required by any good without it.

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

Happiness is a very good thing to those who know what to do with it.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial.

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

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

Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.

As to the evil which results from censure and calumny, we have this consolation, that if the abuse be gross, its effect cannot be lasting.

Censors are dead men set up to judge the living.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a good time.

No man ever did or will do a great work without enthusiasm.

The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

He who thinks he can find, or ever will find, a general character of improbability attaching to all stories of a particular description, is a fool.

Talk to me of the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and I will say, 'Who are these numbers?'

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

I am a visionary, a dreamer, but I am also a realist.

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