To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985,… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people… — Bill Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable!… — John Dean Copy Share Image
The running pants were tolerable, Drustan decided, relieved. The blue trews had clearly been a torture device and would have strangled a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character,… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“From the Inquisition to the Gestapo and the “Battle of Algiers,” history teaches us that, in the production of reliable intelligence, regardless… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image