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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.
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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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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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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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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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
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