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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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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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Ive already told you: the only way to a womans heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. – Marquis De Sade

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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 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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