I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight. — Georgia Douglas Johnson Copy Share Image
I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border,… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — Leo Tolstoy 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
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
I've been through practices during which I've felt as though medieval torture would have been easier. — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image