Warum sollte das Gesetz seinen Schutz irgendeinem empfindenden Wesen verweigern? Die Zeit wird kommen, da die Menschheit alles, was atmet, unter ihren Schirm und Schild nehmen wird.

Jeremy Bentham

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.

Jeremy Bentham
Warum sollte das Gesetz seinen Schutz irgendeinem empfindenden Wesen verweigern? Die Zeit wird kommen, da… - Jeremy Bentham Zitate
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Principles of Penal Law (1838). Übersetzung Vsop.de Principles of Penal Law. From the French of Dumont and the MSS of Bentham. Part III. Chapter XVI Of the Cultivation of Benevolence. p. 562 , in: Works, now first collected under the superintendence of John Bowring. Part II. Edinburgh-London-Dublin 1838.

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