I was never one of those actors who believed, 'I'm so gonna be an ingenue.' I already knew that wasn't gonna happen,… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Torture is and must remain illegal. Warrantless wiretapping is also illegal, as was the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Qatar without proper… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is:… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“...And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I… — Robert Kroese Copy Share Image
What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the Patriots were my team, but I didn't really care, you know what I mean? I got… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
