It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
From Jeremy Bentham
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
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.
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.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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