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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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ideas, Independence, Accessories

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• He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Thinking, Matter, Thanks

  Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.217

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• The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Light, Government, Modest

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• Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Suffering, Fruit, Language

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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

  Government, Law, Medicine

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.66

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• Right... is the child of law.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Children, Law

  'Anarchical Fallacies' in J. Bowring (ed.) 'Works' vol. 2, p. 501

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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ignorance, Law, Feet

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• 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?

  Jeremy Bentham

  Animal, Suffering, Moral

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• All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Punishment, Evil, Mischief

  'Principles of Morals and Legislation' (1789) ch. 13, para. 2

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

  Jeremy Bentham

  Perfection, Age, Busy

  Jeremy Bentham, James Henderson Burns, Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1977). “Bentham: A Fragment on Government”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Growing Up, Kindness, Spring

  Jeremy Bentham (1834). “Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified”, p.131

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• Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Pleasure, Settings

  Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.100, Clarendon Press

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• Reputation is the road to power

  Jeremy Bentham

  Reputation

  Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.108, Clarendon Press

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• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Atheism, Belief

  Jeremy Bentham (1843). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham”, p.92

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• 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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Support, Ignorant, Asylums

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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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Law, Humanity, Protection

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.562

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• What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

  Jeremy Bentham

  Love, Yoga, Compassion

  Jeremy Bentham (1876). “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.311

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

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Evil, Publicity

  Jeremy Bentham (1839). “The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring ...”, p.314

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• All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Branches, Branches Of Government

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.423

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• Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Moving, Men, Earth

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Race, Judging, Employment

  Jeremy Bentham (1839). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.254

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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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Order, Atmosphere

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.441

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• The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Atheism, Poison, Spirit

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• 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.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Regret, Knowing, Giving

  Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1871). “Theory of Legislation”, p.265

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• The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Animal, Suffering, Speak

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