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  • Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

    Pain   Wine   People  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.240, Routledge
  • Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

    Stars   Pain   Profound  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.553, Modern Library
  • I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

    Pain   Thinking   People  
  • Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

    Life   Pain   Animal  
    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press
  • I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

    The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
  • Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

    Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.131, Random House
  • What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.

    Brother   Pain   Pleasure  
    Source: reprints.longform.org
  • Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

  • Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

    Christian   Pain   Hate  
  • I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can't love me

    Pain   Broken   Sadism  
  • We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

    Pain   Fear   Scary  
  • Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

    Pain   People   Imagine  
    Marcel Proust (2003). “The Guermantes way”, ePenguin
  • When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

    Pain   Years   Insanity  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge
  • I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  • All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

    Life   Spiritual   Pain  
    The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.
  • The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

    Pain   Heart   Race  
    Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.110, Courier Corporation
  • History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

    Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016
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