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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Saul Bellow |

'Nothing so endangers the fineness of the human heart as the possession of power over others: nothing so corrodes it as the callous or cruel exercise of that power: and the more helpless the creature over whom power is cruelly or callously exercised, the more the human heart is corroded. It is the recognition of this truth which has brought the conscience of our age, and with it the law, to say that we cannot any longer with impunity regard ourselves as licensed torturers of the rest of creation; that we cannot, for our own sake, afford it.'

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Galsworthy |

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Percy Wynham Lewis |