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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense,—nonsense upon stilts.

Jeremy Bentham

1832

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Human rights Natural law

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1832

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Jeremy Bentham

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies; being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights issued during the French Revolution." The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 2, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843.

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