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

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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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – Jacob Bronowski

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Learning
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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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Intelligence
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Other Quotes from
Torture
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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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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

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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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