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He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.
Of James Mill

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

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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

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Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

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It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

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

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

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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

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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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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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Secresy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

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

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In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.

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The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

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

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

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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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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...

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The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

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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.

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I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science—the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.

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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.

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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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