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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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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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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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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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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
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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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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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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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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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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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Right... is the child of law.
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Reputation is the road to power
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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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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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