94 Quotations with Torture.
- 1. Thomas Merton: The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the m ...
- 2. Froude: Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and d ...
- 3. Sidney Madwed: I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pa ...
- 4. Carl Jung: The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken f ...
- 5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a wor ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his e ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharao ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, ...
- 11. Karl Kraus: What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me ...
- 12. Henrik Ibsen: It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experim ...
- 13. Michael Levin: There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mand ...
- 14. Nicholas Chamfort: An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, wh ...
- 15. Sir Arthur Eddington: Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
- 16. George Orwell: Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in ord ...
- 17. Lord Byron: And dreams in their development have breath,
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- 18. George Eliot: One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the ...
- 19. Bertrand Russell: What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined ...
- 20. John Milton: Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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