How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
I survived this torture which left me paralyzed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violence through… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis.… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess,… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
What is the use of fighting for the vote if we do not have a country to vote in? With that patriotism… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“For the painful essence of withdrawal does not reside in the present suffering it brings - withdrawal is painless on the level… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
I am sorry that Mr. Cheney, and every other supporter of enhanced interrogation techniques, has to defend the practices as if they… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
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