Torturary Quotes & Sayings

What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply human nature. All the worlds nations, therefore, have a great deal in common with one another. The foundation of any national character is human nature. The foundation of national character is simply a particular colouring taken on by human nature, a particular crystallisation of it. — Vasily Grossman

Grace of God in bestowing this gift is most free. It was what God was under no obligation to bestow: he might have rejected fallen man, as he did the fallen angels. It — Jonathan Edwards

all over the world wars
people plagued
by the same ills as their oppressor
the real revolution is
to love myself. — Pamela Sneed

For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host. — William S. Burroughs