“ Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. ”
- James A. Froude- Copy
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“ Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ Torture is a certain method for the acquittal of robust villains and for the condemnation of innocent but feeble men. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
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“ Bring forth the rackFetch hither cords, and knives, and sulphurous flames!He shall be bound and gash'd, his skin fleec'd off, and burnt alive...He shall be hours, days, years, a-dying. ”
- Nathaniel Lee- Copy
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“ Thou shalt behold him stretch'd in all the agoniesOf a tormenting and shameful death!His bleeding bowels, and his broken limbs,Insulted o'er by a vile butchering villain. ”
- Thomas Otway- Copy
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“ Wire-draw his skin, spin all his nerves like hair,And work his tortur'd flesh as thin as flame. ”
- Nathaniel Lee- Copy
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“ It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ The martyrs to vice, far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ What a fine persecution - to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. ”
- Tom Stoppard- Copy
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“ Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. ”
- Jerry Della Femina- Copy
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“ To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. ”
- Daniel D. Palmer- Copy
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“ There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. ”
- Hillary Clinton- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell… ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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