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Jeremy Bentham

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The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but "Can they suffer?


— Jeremy Bentham


#moral #vegetarian #morals

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.


— Jeremy Bentham


#misery #misery

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.


— Jeremy Bentham


#ignorance #law #lawyers #only #persons

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"


— Jeremy Bentham


#question #rather #reason #suffer #talk

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.


— Jeremy Bentham


#itself #mischief #punishment

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.


— Jeremy Bentham


#flowers #forgets #hand #his #man

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.


— Jeremy Bentham


#greatest #greatest number #measure #number #people

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.


— Jeremy Bentham


#individual #interest #talk #understanding #vain

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.


— Jeremy Bentham


#greatest happiness #greatest number #happiness #measure #number

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.


— Jeremy Bentham


#apart #far #never #tyranny






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An attack on America's Declaration of Independence. Animal rights
Bentham is widely regarded as one of the earliest proponents of animal rights and has even been hailed as "the first patron saint of animal rights". A large painting by Henry Tonks hanging in UCL's Flaxman Gallery depicts Bentham approving the plans of the new university but it was executed in 1922 and the scene is entirely imaginary.

He has also become known in recent years as an early advocate of animal rights. : /ˈbɛnθəm/; 15 February 1748 OS – 6 June 1832) was a British philosopher jurist and social reformer. He advocated individual and economic freedom the separation of church and state freedom of expression equal rights for women the right to divorce and the decriminalising of homosexual acts.

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