Human beings are constantly inventing new ways of maltreating one other. C'est la vie.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don’t like who we are.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

Human beings have a tendency to be mean to others in order to feel better about themselves.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.

Human beings suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted or endured.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

But they are experts at using their victim's need for attention and affection to manipulate them. It's important to understand that, while abusers are incapable of loving others, they're incapable of loving themselves, also. Abusers need to feel superior. They will obsessively find fault, teach, correct and criticize.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?