“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Many of the soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and have not been supported by the government when they've requested psychological help.… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Tamlin's eyes were so green- green like the meadows of his estate. A shade that washed away the memories flooding through me,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I don't want to torture anything. It's about trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty in the… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
“I realized that suspects under torture were being asked things they couldn’t possibly know about and giving answers they thought their torturers… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of… — Sean MacBride Copy Share Image
A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the right to authenticity and the reverence of authenticity should be reserved for people like John McCain. John McCain who at… — Krystal Ball 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
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
Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Torture and cruelty are the words that come to mind when people think of the Tower. Here it was that the princes… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
![“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f99/laurie-matthew-31209_abuse-sexual-abuse_in-a-nutshell-the-process-they-abusers-i_1534823.jpg)
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![“Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.” quote by Audie Cornish](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a7e/audie-cornish-16264_contrary_keeping-this-facility-guantanamo-prison_299030.jpg)
![“No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.” quote by Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/68e/henry-george-8103_absurd_no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absu_70212.jpg)
