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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
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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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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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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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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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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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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Right... is the child of law.
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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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Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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