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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

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

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Men
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Oscar Wilde
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting
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Torture
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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

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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

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

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. – E. M. Cioran

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Torture

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