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Natural rights is simple nons...

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

Jeremy Bentham 76 quotes

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

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

Jeremy Bentham 76 quotes

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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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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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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Without publicity, no good is...

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

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Judges of elegance and taste ...

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

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Kind words cost no more than ...

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

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I don't care whether animals ...

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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Is it possible for a man to m...

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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Why should the law refuse its...

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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It is vain to talk of the int...

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

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The law of England has establ...

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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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, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

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The day may come when the res...

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

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A civilized society must coun...

A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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Those physical difficulties w...

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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It is with government as with...

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.

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Among the several cloudy appe...

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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