60 Quotes by Catherine the Great




  • Author Catherine the Great
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    What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

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    to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

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    The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

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