Quote by Jacob Bronowski
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

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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski

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To me, being an intellectual doesnt mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. – Jacob Bronowski

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

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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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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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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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Had we never lovd sae kindly, Had we never lovd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns

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