{"author":"Jeremy Bentham","author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["law","ignorance","lawyers "],"id":1696,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects, are fastened to their throne. They govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. In words a man may pretend to abjure their empire: but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while. The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law. Systems which attempt to question it, deal in sounds instead of sense, in caprice instead of reason, in darkness instead of light.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["ethics","happiness","moral-philosophy","morality","nature","pain","philosophy","philosophy-of-ethics","pleasure","reason","utilitarianism","utility"],"id":51189,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["conspiracy","never","system "],"id":75440,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["law","lawyer","uncertainty "],"id":78231,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["crime","punishment"],"id":89132,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["law","lawyers"],"id":112433,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["fiction","ontology","philosophy"],"id":154880,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"...The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["philosophy","utilitarianism"],"id":164194,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["foundation","greatest","morals "],"id":224769,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"},{"text":". . . In no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.","author":"Jeremy Bentham","tags":["corruption","delusion","government","intimidation","oppression","purpose","system-of-religion"],"id":230841,"author_id":"Jeremy+Bentham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}