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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Suffragist
Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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Create all the happiness you are able to create remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
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Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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