Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed… — Sandra Lerner Copy Share Image
Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
Among the events of John McCain's five-and-a-half years of imprisonment and torture in North Vietnam, probably the most heroic, and surely the… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
“Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the… — Henry A. Giroux Copy Share Image
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen Copy Share Image
Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The first year of doing theatre was absolute torture, and I felt like I can't do so much work. — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
“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
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
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Torture remains unacceptable and unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war. — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
“Deontology states that there are certain things, like torture, that you just shouldn’t do.” — David Edmonds Copy Share Image
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