Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“One blanket, coupled with a fluffy pillow, could be implemented as a torture device for insomniacs. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.” — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
It's kinda like nursing a POW back to health so he's at his strongest when you torture him. -Sue — Glee Copy Share Image
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“So, so we have to beat it out of you or are you going to confess willingly, 'cause you know I'm into… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The teacher is no longer merely the-one-who-teaches, but one who is him/herself taught in dialogue with the students, who in turn while… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
My 70 days of torture began in Camp India. The camps in Gitmo are named by letters. A is for Alpha, B… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by raising difficult questions most Hollywood movies… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility… — Guy Lawson Copy Share Image
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and… — George Cheyne Copy Share Image
“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“it’s like you’ve got this dark-hearted picture of yourself that you feel like you need to nurture. Or torture. Maybe” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
Each time I work on a film, I say to myself, 'This is it. This is the end.' Because it is so… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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