People ask, "What could possibly cause a normal person to torture her own child?" Well, the answer is: Nothing could cause a… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think:… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“So they started to hear the rumors of the torture and the deaths inside the prison only in November and December 2003.… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
No matter how bad you make the torture scenes, the reality was much worse. Because you cannot put on screen 70 days… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually… — Saadi Yacef Copy Share Image
I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of course mobile phones are always kept out of the room during Cabinet meetings, for security reasons. But to keep a politician… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits.… — Osman Baydemir Copy Share Image
I'm always good to try something at least once. If I don't like it then I'm not doing it, but I love… — Trina Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The most effective torture is not physical—it is mental of course. The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could… — Raine Miller Copy Share Image
I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
