Storm Jameson - Human Quotes

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What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

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Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything... Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

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Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

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Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

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