From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.” — Melissa Andrea 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 higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with… — Simon Wiesenthal 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
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture! — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You know, your sarcasm isn’t appreciated right now. I’ve been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber,… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already… — Robert Breault 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
Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness.… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our… — Joanna Macy 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
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some… — Jamie Hince 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
