Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy.… — Martial Copy Share Image
I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
“Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret? [Theodore… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this… — Carl Sutton Copy Share Image
I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil;… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“I think the best punishment for a misbehaving child is to strap them to a chair and make them listen to Lady… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of… — Sean MacBride Copy Share Image
I don't want to torture anything. It's about trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty in the… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“I realized that suspects under torture were being asked things they couldn’t possibly know about and giving answers they thought their torturers… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This… — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
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