It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel like the thing that I've learned a lot is when you're involved in something, you don't always get to appreciate… — Finneas Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
I've directed our defense community headed by our great general now Secretary [James] Mattis, he's over there now working very hard to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security,… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and… — Steven Spielberg 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
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now they're really amused, and burst into laughter. Someone tries a variation while still clapping hands: 'Clipped prick… clipped prick.' Whereupon they… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures.… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr.… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“That was torture--being able to see, and smell, and hear, and being trapped in a cage. Like standing on the wrong side… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Four years that the [Barack] Obama Justice Department... There were 100 ostensible cases, allegations. No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, allegations… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to… — Moby Copy Share Image
“There is sometimes a fine line between a cop and a criminal. What drives their personality may be the same, and they… — Dr. ML Rapier PhD Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“You really don’t care for torture, do you? (Medea) No, I don’t. It’s one thing to strike out in anger, another to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image