Bentham Admissions Quotes & Sayings

It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice. — John Adams

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born. — Ronald Syme

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense. — Frederick Lenz

Don't you think that although you have the sorrows of humanity at heart, sometimes you are a little impatient with the sorrows of particular men? — Florence Converse

My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich. — Tom Robbins

He thought of these yers as another life within the one he had. As though it were a thing he was able to carry. A small box. A handkerchief. A stone. He did not understand how a life could vanish. How that was even possible. How it could close in an instant before you even reach inside one last time, touch someone's hand one last time. How there would come a day when no one would wonder about the life he had before this one. — Paul Yoon

Be good or be gone. — Toni Sorenson

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me. — James Gray