The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?
JEREMY BENTHAM
If you hate much, punish much: if you hate little, punish little: punish as you hate. If you hate not at all, punish not at all
More Jeremy Bentham Quotes
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The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but “Can they suffer?
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
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Reputation is the road to power
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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 rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.
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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.
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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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happy life and merciful death
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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.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
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If then, merely out of regard to population, it were right that paederasts should be burnt alive, monks ought to be roasted alive over a slow fire.
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