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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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. – Jacob Bronowski

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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind. – Jacob Bronowski

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The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now… – Henry Miller

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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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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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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care. – William Alexander

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