Philosophy of human rights uncompromising and any derogation from the principles a reason to rise up in arms. This was a problem because; The natural rights “Against which there can be no prescription; against these no agreements is binding” gave the revolutionaries the tools to destroy the very society that Burke believed afforded them with rights. In this way Burke thought the rights contained in the "Declaration" would lead to “the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.” The 18th-century Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham criticised the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" in his text "Anarchical Fallacies". He
Jeremy Bentham came to expressing it was in the form "the good and happiness of the members, that is the majority of the members of any state, is the great standard by which every thing relating to that state must finally be determined". The "greatest happiness principle", or the principle of utility, forms the cornerstone of all Bentham's thought. By "happiness", he understood a predominance of "pleasure" over "pain". He wrote in "The Principles of Morals and Legislation": Bentham was a rare major figure in the history of philosophy to endorse psychological egoism. Bentham was a determined opponent of religion. Crimmins observes: