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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employ

The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. – Oscar Wilde

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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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Generations
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Oscar Wilde
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde

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good
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Oscar Wilde
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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Saint, Saints
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Torture
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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

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Torture

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

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Torture

The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Torture

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen

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Torture

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