“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira 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
Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“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
The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job… — Peter Maurer 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
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
I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow… — Peter Benenson Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Whatever they have done, or are doing, or will do to the people locked away forever in Guantanamo Bay, they will do… — Banole Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round… — 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
“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
Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf. — Ian Woosnam Copy Share Image
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
I'm sure if there is a debate, Guantanamo Bay must be closed. And it should be closed, because it does not belong… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“This is the Torture Room. But don't let the name fool you. This is a tent, not a room.” — Jeremy C. Shipp Copy Share Image
People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone. — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image
Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture! — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Less than 15% of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
