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As to the evil which results ...

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

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Without publicity, no good is...

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

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By utility is meant that prop...

By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual

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How is property given? By res...

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

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The offence is what is improp...

The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.

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...the rarest of all human qu...

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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Priestly was the first (unles...

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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Natural rights is simple nons...

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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The word "independence" is un...

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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Create all the happiness you ...

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

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In the mind of all, fiction, ...

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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Lawsuits generally originate ...

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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We may scatter the seeds of c...

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

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The greatest happiness of the...

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham 76 quotes

The age we live in is a busy ...

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

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Stretching his hand up to rea...

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

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Nature has placed mankind und...

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

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It is the greatest good to th...

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

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The principle of asceticism n...

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

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Secrecy, being an instrument ...

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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