Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“It’s torture, Desmond…” I breathed, my whole body aching to finish, to do anything but stand here full of him and pretend… — Dari A. Malaunt Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
But even if you're not a 'Scrubs' follower you'll still have a good time, because all the songs are recognizable and presented… — Sam Lloyd Copy Share Image
He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have laws to deal with people who defame other people's religion. We have laws to deal with people who try to… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's… — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
“Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures,… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game… — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacified to bring me a meal of… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
