Jeremy Bentham Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Evil, Impossible, Censorship

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.152

• All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Punishment, Evil, Mischief

  'Principles of Morals and Legislation' (1789) ch. 13, para. 2

• Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Evil, Publicity

  Jeremy Bentham (1839). “The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring ...”, p.314

• By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Party, Evil

  Jeremy Bentham (1879). “The Principles of Morals and Legislation”

• It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Law, Medicine

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.66

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