"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
-Jeremy Bentham
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"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"The said truth is that 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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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
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