Tzvetan Todorov Quotes

The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It, Even If This Is Difficult For Him To Accept Openly. Having Been Injured And Humiliated By Aggression, He Can Now Humiliate In His Turn Those Whom He Considers To Be His Aggressors, And Rediscover His Self-esteem. As An Ex-soldier Of The Algerian War Explains, Forty Years After The Events: 'You Could Feel A Certain Form Of Jubilation While Being Present At Such Extreme Scenes . . . Doing To A Body Whatever You Feel Like Doing To It.' Reducing The Other To A State Of Complete Impotence Gives You A Feeling Of Supreme Power. This Feeling Is One Which Torture Gives You More Than Murder Does, Since The Latter Does Not Last: Once Dead, The Other Becomes An Inert Object And No Longer Produces That Jubilation Which Stems From Fully Triumphing Over The Will Of Another, Without His Ceasing To Exist.

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

Tzvetan Todorov Quotes: The Decision To Use Torture As A Terror Of Retribution Gives An Inner Satisfaction To The Person Who Practises It,

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