I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. — John McCain Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers. — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D.,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
“The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible.… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The first year of doing theatre was absolute torture, and I felt like I can't do so much work. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed… — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! — Lady G Copy Share Image
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
