Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I want to proceed as Raphael did and never paint another image of torture.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques ... — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.” — Anna Funder 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
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues… — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is arbitrary, abused, and unnecessary in… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God… — Dwight Frye Copy Share Image
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the… — Albert Maltz Copy Share Image
Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living. More than this cannot be said. About this world little is… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.” — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
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