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Right... is the child of law.
Reputation is the road to power
All poetry is misrepresentation.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.