Jeremy Bentham — "Secrecy, being a weapon of injustice, is never to be endured."

"The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the …"

"The value of a pleasure or pain considered by itself, will be greater or less, according to six circumstances: 1. Its intensity. 2. Its duration. 3. Its certainty or uncertainty. 4. Its propinquity or…"

"The more closely a man is confined, the more he is an object of compassion."

"The principle of utility requires that we consider the interests of all concerned, without distinction."

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."