The Greatest Thing

"The source of cruelty is always fear... Whoever tortures you has a great fear inside of him. He is more afraid than the one being tortured. And you have to understand his state, because if you don’t understand, then you have lost, and the torturer has also lost. You [the torturer] are not authentic with the man who tortures me. No! No!

Here lies the problem of suffering. Here is the greatest thing: when you will see that the man who is torturing you is more afflicted than you who is being tortured."


[Ferenc Visky, speaking in a trailer for Prisoners of the Light]