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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Suffragist
Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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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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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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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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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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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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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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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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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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Reputation is the road to power
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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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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
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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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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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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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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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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
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Right... is the child of law.
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