I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.” They looked at me. “Why the head?” Doolittle asked. “Because it’s easy to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“...And I can't promise anything, you understand, but there's always a chance he'll want to torture your boss anyway. Just recreationally, I… — Robert Kroese 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
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the Patriots were my team, but I didn't really care, you know what I mean? I got… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
“Given involuntarily, and in an atmosphere of distrust, pain is torture, whatever the motive," suggests David. "But given consensually, between equals, pain… — Geoff Mains Copy Share Image
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture.… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or… — Charlotte Laws Copy Share Image
That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, its perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture,… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express… — Aleister Black Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman 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
