The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This… — Nicole Sobon Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't wish this sort of agony on my worst enemy. It was pure and complete torture. To know that, for the… — Courtney Giardina Copy Share Image
We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails,… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps we should just ask Todd." I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinch. And then she… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“On August 1, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel granted the CIA’s request to begin water-boarding Abu Zubaydah. The technique, tantamount… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that… — Naomi Klein 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 have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“For this, Love is enraged with me; Yet kills not. If I must example be To future rebels, if the unborn Must… — John Donne Copy Share Image
When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're… — Katie Aselton Copy Share Image
A lot of my close friends are musicians and are consumed by the idea of death; their heads are like a torture… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose.… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers… — Thomm Quackenbush 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
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
“Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret? [Theodore… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death.… — Paramahansa Yogananda 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
Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy.… — Martial Copy Share Image
One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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