We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed… — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
We are not made safe from terrorists by helicopters, or missiles or boots on the ground. Nor is it drones, torture or… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Got any new ways to torture and kill people?” “Hmmm,” said the voice. “Did you try stabbing them?” “Of course. That’s one… — Jason Z. Christie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject.… — Louise Thaden Copy Share Image
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were… — Steven W. Mosher Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ever been in love, truly, magnificently in love, knows that it is torture. It is ugly and messy and… — Jessica Gadziala Copy Share Image
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
That's a weird way to torture yourself. Just watch a movie, over and over, that you hate. That's really funny - that's… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding... or any other form of torture… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
The Gucci woman - you know what she’s after. The Saint Laurent woman - she’s going to torture you a little bit.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
I wrote a cheesy love song - called "Tender Torture". I guess it's more of a song about being away from someone… — Nicholas Thorburn Copy Share Image
...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico,… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“Where are we? -Braeden In the deepest part of your mind, where Carden can never find you. It's the goodness you've developed… — S.M. Boyce Copy Share Image
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
