 | 1914 - 640 pages
...After observing "people sometimes talk of bestial cruelty, but that's a great insult and injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel." Fyodor Dostoevsky writes down something as depressing as has ever been conceived in literature: "Here... | |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1926 - 876 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too ; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 1977 - 132 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till mornurg, and in the morning they hang them—all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk sometimes...ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - 1990 - 172 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think... | |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles B. Guignon - 1993 - 132 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing... | |
 | C. Stephen Evans - 1996 - 190 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing... | |
 | Harvey Siegel - 1997 - 252 pages
...And, indeed, people sometimes speak ot man's "bestial" cruelty, but this is very unfair and insulting to the beasts: a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so ingetuously, so artistically cruel. A tiger merely gnaws and tears to pieces, that's all he knows.... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 528 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb, and tossing... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - 376 pages
...prisoners by the ears to the fences, leave them so till morning, and in the morning they hang them — all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk...people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. [Soldiers take] pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother's womb,... | |
 | Jason M. Wirth - 2003 - 308 pages
...And, indeed, people sometimes speak of man's "bestial" cruelty, but this is very unfair and insulting to the beasts: a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so ingeniously, so artistically cruel. A tiger merely gnaws and tears to pieces, that's all he knows.... | |
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... all sorts of things you can't imagine. People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can... 
