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

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

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

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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

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

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

Secrecy being an instrument of conspiracy ought never to be the system of a regular government.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.