Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Here's the bigger problem with all this, we're not interrogating anybody right now. Guantanamo's being emptied by this president. We should be… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“I will fight. I will torture. And I will kill in my line of work. I knew I would join the mob… — Sarah Brianne Copy Share Image
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewart were again… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“His body was so hard it was all he could do not to limp. And to think, he’d mistakenly believed he’d survived… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A total of 779 prisoners have been held at Guantánamo since the facility was opened on January 11, 2002. Of those, 8… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“The supreme torture was to come. He discovered that it required the united energies of the three men to coax him into… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“ marathon: (noun) A popular form of overpriced torture wherein participants wake up at ass-o-clock in the morning and stand in the… — Matthew Inman Copy Share Image
“Archer shifted on the bed so that he could look at my face. “I’ll go with you,” he said. I raised both… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough;… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will… — Suzanne Collins 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
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln 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
“Government officials and the corporate media whipped up a mood in the country that approached hysteria; Trump deftly exploited that mood to… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
