Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in… — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise.… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong… — William James Copy Share Image
The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[One of the biggest differences between him and his rivals for the Republican nomination was] "every one of them wants to torture… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In 2004, Jacques Derrida said that a change was under way. Torture damages the inflicter as well as the inflicted. It’s no… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I pulled my psoas muscle, which... it's torture, it's basically torture to kind of get that worked on. It's basically your tenderloin… — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
It is as sweet as love, the more bitter. There are more gentle, more strict, which allows as much as does torture — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
“Spies should be able to endure torture and still keep their secrets. I spilled mine out like pennies from a broken piggy… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“This would be my torture: all that didn't bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.' — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image