SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
My position on the POW issue has been widely misquoted and taken out of context. What I originally said and have continued… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“But to pine for those we have had and loved and once held but will never clasp again,” he continued, “it is… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq.… — Marty Meehan 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
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I've directed our defense community headed by our great general now Secretary [James] Mattis, he's over there now working very hard to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security,… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
She sifted, sighed, and stared up at the ceiling, trying to think about anything but Lord Maccoon, her current predicament, or Lord… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have two little kids and I enjoy watching movies with them, and I can't watch every movie with them. Sometimes it's… — Rob Letterman Copy Share Image
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been… — John Knox Copy Share Image
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong… — William James Copy Share Image
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Torture?” she asked with a laugh. “My first piece of information I’ll divulge to you? I wouldn’t recommend trying to torture me.… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“You know, If you weren't tiny, cute and remarkably innocent looking I'd be running away right now. This feels like the set-up… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at… — Mohamed Khan Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result… — Lee Hirsch Copy Share Image
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