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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.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
Jurist
Lawyer
Merchant
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Suffragist
Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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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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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
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The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
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An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
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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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Reputation is the road to power
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