"Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness."

-- Ariel Dorfman

#Pain Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Numbness Quotes

“National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.118, Univ of California Press
“Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.”
“But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.”
“A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.”
“Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.”
“Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.”
“In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.”
“However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”

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