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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.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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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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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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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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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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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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Right... is the child of law.
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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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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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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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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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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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