You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo 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
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in… — Kwame Anthony Appiah 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
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
“In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
