“Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?” IfsImportantRememberHoursMemoriesForeverImportanceTortureEcstasy Author:Daniel Gilbert
“The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.” MenWayImportantSecretMilitaryProduceTortureCustomsWorthwhileBeaten Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“We have found ways... to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell... in the multinational food industry... and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.” WayImportantFacesFoundAnimalHellIndustryImportant ThingsMiseryTortureCreamLaboratoryVegetarianismLipstickMultinationalsFood Industry Author:David Oderberg
“When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.” PeopleKnowsImportantMotivationalFormSimpleDecisionTortureInternalsDecision MakingUnclear Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to remember the past, but that doesn't mean you have to torture yourself with it by reliving it every single day.” MeanHas BeensImportantPastRememberKeysTortureMmaHungRemembering The Past Author:Georges St-Pierre
“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.” IfsMayImportantActionPainReligionPleasureCasesMoralitySickOneselfPursuitTortureBehaviourUtilitySympatheticPain And Pleasure Book:Choice, Welfare and Measurement Source: Choice, Welfare and Measurement