It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I'm always good to try something at least once. If I don't like it then I'm not doing it, but I love… — Trina Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the… — Haruki Murakami 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
Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.” — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The steep decline in America's image and standing after 9/11 is a direct reflection of global distaste for the instruments of American… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11.… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I feel like the thing that I've learned a lot is when you're involved in something, you don't always get to appreciate… — Finneas Copy Share Image
