“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much… — Henry Stephens Salt 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
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“I cut off his fingers to get him to talk, and when he'd confessed everything I wanted to hear, I had his… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole.… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“Humanity was an ugly word when such cruelty was inflicted on one another.” — Gayendra Abeywardane Copy Share Image
