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Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishme

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

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

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

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