I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner… — Jeremy Bentham
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.
1797
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, edited by Michael Quinn. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 2001, app. 2.
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Bentham, Jeremy. Farming Defended. 1797.
