Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. Every law is an infraction of liberty. Jeremy Bentham. Related Topics Infraction Law Liberty. Prevoius Next. Hate Little Philosophy Punish. The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry. Equal Fire Pleasure Quantity Slow.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Philosophy Question Reason Suffer Talk. There was loan, and ship-money, and extremes begat extremes. The House would then give no money. Let the King rely upon the Parliament; we have settled the Crown and the Government. The Lords may give Supply with their own money, but we give the peoples; we are their proxies.
The King takes his measures by the Parliament, and he doubts not but that all the Commons will supply for the Government; but giving at this rate that we have done, we shall be "a branch of the revenue. But, let the officers say what they will, we will not make these mismanagements the King's error.
We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade.
Non-Violent Resistance - Often misquoted as "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul.
They have perverted the language, and will not employ this word in its common acceptation. They speak a language that belongs to no one: they say, Liberty consists in the power of doing every thing which does not hurt another. But is this the ordinary meaning of this word?
The liberty of doing evil, is it not liberty? If it is not liberty, what is it then? Do we not say that liberty should be taken away from fools, and wicked persons, because they abuse it? According to this definition, then, I do not know if I have the liberty of doing or not doing any action, until I have examined all its consequences?
If it appear to me hurtful to a single individual, whether the law permit, or even command it, I have not liberty to do it! An officer of justice would not have liberty to punish a thief, unless he was sure such punishment would not hurt such thief!
Such are the absurdities implied in this definition. What says unsophisticated reason? Let us seek from thence for true propositions. The sole object of government ought to be the greatest happiness of the greatest possible number of the community. The happiness of an individual is greater, in proportion as his sufferings are lighter and fewer in number, and as his enjoyments are greater and larger in number.
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