I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate. — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know? — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira 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
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death. — Charles Addams Copy Share Image
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them. — Stephen Neal Copy Share Image
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing worse than fear. Fear is worse than cancer, fear is worse than torture, fear is worse than betrayal and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam. "Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this… — Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr Copy Share Image
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The way I see Jesus has not changed much at all since I was a child, but my imprisonment and all that… — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“But shit, I've never been that complicated. Physical pain gets a physical response. Everything else is nobody's fucking business.” — Lisa Henry Copy Share Image
“I want to be the most terrible thing that's ever happened to you. Can you understand that? I want to be the… — Xix Copy Share Image
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“It had been torture. But every coffin needed its last nail, and that meeting was ours.” — R.K. Lilley Copy Share Image
“the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Hunger of choice is a painful luxury; hunger of necessity is terrifying torture. — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“I dream about you every night. It's torture." "Why torture?" "Because I wake up knowing I didn't actually touch you.” — Edie Harris Copy Share Image
I would absolutely authorize something beyond waterboarding. And believe me, it will be effective. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'd do if for some reason I was no longer able to write. Commit murder, perhaps. At the… — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
