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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Gamaliel Smith
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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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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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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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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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
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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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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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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
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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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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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Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
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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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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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