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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loo

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

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

It doesnt matter whether youre talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, hell always say Publish and be damned. – Jacob Bronowski

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Science
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. – Jacob Bronowski

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Science
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created. – Jacob Bronowski

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Other Quotes from
Torture
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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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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

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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Torture

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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Torture

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Truth fears nothing but concealment. – Proverb

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Experience

Caution is the parent of safety. – Proverb

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The road not taken was not your path. – Michael Lipsey

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