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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

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Astronomy
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Jacob Bronowski
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You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
environmental
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Jacob Bronowski
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. – Jacob Bronowski

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Conflict
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Jacob Bronowski
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Other Quotes from
Torture
category

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

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. – Mahatma Gandhi

Category:
Torture

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen

Category:
Torture

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

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All art requires courage. – Anne Tucker

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