There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Identify you as messenger...to other Riders." The words were gasped as if he were forcing air in and out of his lungs… — Kristen Britain Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“This is torture, torture, torture. Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened??? I'm… — Bill Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
I find that deadlines form part of the aesthetic. I don't have that "It could only have been this way" kind of… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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
Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly… — Martin Luther 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
“During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of… — Gilles Quispel Copy Share Image
The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are… — Livia Bitton-Jackson Copy Share Image
“I stole looks. First was her hair, long and loopy and pulled back. Second, she has the prettiest face, oopen-like and up-looking.… — Paul Griffin Copy Share Image
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Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain… — John McCain Copy Share Image
How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
![“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South…” quote by Andre Vltchek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/01e/andre-vltchek-5249_american-revolution_nothing-exceptional-would-happen-to-the_1541451.jpg)
