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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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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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Art
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Oscar Wilde
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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Ethics
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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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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

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi

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