Jeremy Bentham Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Every law is an infraction of liberty.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Funny, Humor, Law

  1789 An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

• How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

  Jeremy Bentham

  House, Liberty, Purpose

  Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.95

• 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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