I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“With that Nox turned a knob. There was a delay, but that was how the machine worked. First it gathered information about… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
“Seth envied them that freedom as his naked body hung lankly from the ceiling, with his hands shackled over his head. He’d… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Those screams had been growing steadily louder, as the torture masters of Eld worked their way down the line of new prisoners.… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we… — Laura Poitras 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
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible.… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of… — Alberto J. Mora Copy Share Image
“The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more… — Inge Genefke Copy Share Image
Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Government officials and the corporate media whipped up a mood in the country that approached hysteria; Trump deftly exploited that mood to… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From… — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts,… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“His body was so hard it was all he could do not to limp. And to think, he’d mistakenly believed he’d survived… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough;… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“ marathon: (noun) A popular form of overpriced torture wherein participants wake up at ass-o-clock in the morning and stand in the… — Matthew Inman Copy Share Image
