“You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.” — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!”… — Phakyab RINPOCHE Copy Share Image
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does,… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is:… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
“It’s a strange kind of torture,” he said quietly. “To be caged by the lowest expectations. A humiliation of the soul.” — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Deontology states that there are certain things, like torture, that you just shouldn’t do.” — David Edmonds Copy Share Image