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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose

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

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

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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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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

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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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