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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/what-else-is-it-that-should-trace-the-insuperable-line-is-it-the/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

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> [The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-question-is-not-can-they-reason-nor-can-they-talk-but-rather-can/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

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## More by Jeremy Bentham

> [All poetry is misrepresentation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/all-poetry-is-misrepresentation/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-law-of-england-has-established-trial-by-judge-and-jury-in-the/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/prose-is-when-all-the-lines-except-the-last-go-on-to-the-end-poetry/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/o-logic-born-gatekeeper-to-the-temple-of-science-victim-of-capricious/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Every law is an infraction of liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/every-law-is-an-infraction-of-liberty/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/stretching-his-hand-up-to-reach-the-stars-too-often-man-forgets-the/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-principle-of-asceticism-never-was-nor-ever-can-be-consistently/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/tyranny-and-anarchy-are-never-far-apart/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Reputation is the road to power](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/reputation-is-the-road-to-power/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/in-the-mind-of-all-fiction-in-the-logical-sense-has-been-the-coin-of/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/the-turn-of-a-sentence-has-decided-the-fate-of-many-a-friendship-and/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/for-the-same-sentiment-of-antipathy-if-implicitly-deferred-to-may-be/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/if-christianity-needed-an-anti-christ-they-needed-look-no-farther/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/without-publicity-no-good-is-permanent-under-the-auspices-of/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

> [All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-bentham/all-punishment-is-mischief-all-punishment-in-itself-is-evil/)

[Jeremy Bentham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-bentham/)

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