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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

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"All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses."

"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."

"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."

"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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