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Jeremy Bentham Quotes

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"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
-Jeremy Bentham in Community quotes.
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
-Jeremy Bentham in Happiness quotes.
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?"
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
-Jeremy Bentham in Suffering quotes.
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet."
-Jeremy Bentham
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