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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
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Gamaliel Smith
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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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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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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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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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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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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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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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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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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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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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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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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All punishment is mischief all punishment in itself is evil.
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