“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
Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. — Victoria Abril Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I knew about some experience on the operational part of the CIA with Latin American services and so forth having to do… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was never one of those actors who believed, 'I'm so gonna be an ingenue.' I already knew that wasn't gonna happen,… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
