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Jeremy Bentham Biography

Jeremy Bentham (/ˈbɛnθəm/; 15 February 1748 [O.S. 4 February 1747] – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as 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? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

Animal, Dog, Horse, Infant, Perhaps, Protection

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Business, Evils, Government, Law, Medicine

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Suffering, Fruit, Language, Produce, Unkind

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Government, Evil, Publicity, Continue, Good

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Atheism, Dogmatic, Poison, Spirit, Theology

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Attorney, Law, Power, Uncertainty

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Fall, Goes On, Lines, Poetry

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Age, Busy, Knowledge, Live, Perfection, Towards

Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of supporting his rank, his dignity presents a motive for malversation, and his power furnishes the means.

Lawful, Mean, Motive, Pace, Want

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

Greatest, Happiness, Measure, Numbers, Said, Truth Is

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Censorship, Ends, Evil, Impossible, Measure

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Justice, Keenest, Soul, Spurs, Surest

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Lawyer, Lawyers, Sometimes, Truth, Win, Winning

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Conspiracy, Government, Ought, Political, Politics, System

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Government, Mankind, Nature, Pain, Sovereign, Two

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

Support, Ignorant, Asylums, Generally, Left

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Ascertain, England, Judging, Jury, Law, Trials

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Appellatives, Atmosphere, Government, Order, Several

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure. . . There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

Characterized, Elegance, Employment, Epithet, Judging, Race

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Misrepresentation, Poetry, Poetry Is

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