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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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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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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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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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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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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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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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