One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,… — Jane Goodall 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
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 have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
“... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it… — Ryan Hurd Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free. — Jerrold Nadler 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
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
