Jean Harris Quotes

The cruelties committed against the Hottentots exceed everything that is said about it in Cape Town or what can be imagined.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Any abuse of animals is the same as abuse of men, women, or children.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor.

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery. You cannot imprison a free man forever unless you have broken him; and you can only forcibly break a man's soul by torturing it out of him. Slavery dehumanizes; torture dehumanizes in exactly the same way. The torture of human beings who have no freedom and no recourse to the courts is slavery.

I have no patience whatsoever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

As heathens, the white people had been cruel enough, but as Christians, they were ten times more so. As heathens, they were not quite so audacious as to go and take vessel loads of men, women and children, and in cold blood, through devilishness, throw them into the sea, and murder them in all kind of ways. But being Christians, enlightened and sensible, they are completely prepared for such hellish cruelties.

Circuses don't treat their 'performers' very well - whipping them, trying to make them terrified.

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Cruelty and fear shake hands together.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The malignity and inhumanity of the Greek military authorities are undisguised.

It has always worried me that certain men of the Church have not understood that torture is never humane or Christian.

Torture arises in societies afflicted with a culture of dehumanization.