“ The day may come when the rest of animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny. The French have already discovered that the blackness of the skin is no reason why a human being should be abandoned without redress to the caprice of a tormentor. It may one day come to be recognized that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum are reasons equally insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being to the same fate. What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason, or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a fullgrown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? ”
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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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“ Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. ”
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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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“ In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. ”
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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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“ Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. ”
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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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“ Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. ”
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“ The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ”
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“ The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. ”
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“ It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ”
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“ Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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“ He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn. ”
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“ All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ”
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“ The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. ”
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“ Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. ”
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“ All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ”
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