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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer who lived from February 15, 1748, to June 6, 1832. He is best known for his work in moral philosophy, political theory, and legal reform, particularly his advocacy for the principle of utilitarianism.

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Famous Jeremy Bentham Quotes

“Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.”

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“Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.”

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“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”

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“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.”

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Book:The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected

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“Every law is an infraction of liberty.”

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“In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.”

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