Quotes by Bentham, Jeremy

Every law is an infraction of liberty. >>

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest nu >>

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to than >>

Quotations about Asceticism

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes t >>

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. Wha >>

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and fo >>

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.

Bentham, Jeremy