No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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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.Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
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.
Jeremy Bentham
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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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
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