Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“is desperately hard for men to accept that there is a direct path from the highest ideals to the torture chamber—for”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.”

— Karen Essex

“all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and…

— James Baldwin

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of…

— Anonymous

“You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,”

— Gillian Flynn

“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I got to see with my own eyes the boundaries of men’s compassion alongside their unfathomable brutality, their ingenuity alongside astounding folly, their insanity…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.”

— Heather Day Gilbert

“The pleasing punishment that women bare....”

— William Shakespeare

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking…

— Emil Cioran