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"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Conscience is the chamber of justice." »Origen
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"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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"One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place." »Emily Dickinson
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"I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas." »S.J. Perelman
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"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view." »Lillian Hellman
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"Hell has no benefits, only torture." »John Milton, Paradise Lost
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory." »Michael Levin
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"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture." »Matt Groening
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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians." »Henrik Ibsen
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"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 Anthony Froude
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"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives." »James Joyce
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984
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"Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket." »Karl Kraus
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"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue." »Henry James
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"No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." »Thomas Merton
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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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"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons." »anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
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"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." »Shana Alexander
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"Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come." »William Shakespeare
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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