Jeremy Bentham

“All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.”

“The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”

“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.”

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

“The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.”

“It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.”

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

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”

“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”

“Publicity is the very soul of justice.”

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

“Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.”