Quotes from bentham jeremy iii

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science--the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.

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

The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.