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Jeremy Bentham1748–1832

Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth — that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Jeremy Bentham on happiness

“Extracts from Bentham’s Commonplace Book”, in Collected Works, x, p. 142

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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.
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The question is not Can they reason?, nor Can they talk?, but Can they suffer?
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Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty: And I repeat that government has but a choice of evils.
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