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Jeremy Bentham Quotes: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
         

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.


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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
         



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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!



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



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



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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.



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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.





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