The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. – Jacob Bronowski
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. – E. M. Cioran
Ive already told you: the only way to a womans heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. – Marquis De Sade
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen
The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now… – Henry Miller
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. – Octave Mirbeau
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde
