My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I feel like the thing that I've learned a lot is when you're involved in something, you don't always get to appreciate… — Finneas Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital." I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Ilyich (Lenin), your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold. Is it possible that you do… — Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin Copy Share Image
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.” They looked at me. “Why the head?” Doolittle asked. “Because it’s easy to… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time brom and i crossed… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
I was never one of those actors who believed, 'I'm so gonna be an ingenue.' I already knew that wasn't gonna happen,… — Keala Settle Copy Share Image
“If it’s anywhere near as bad as what those assholes did to me… I’m tired of living through this shit just to… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Torture is and must remain illegal. Warrantless wiretapping is also illegal, as was the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Qatar without proper… — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his… — Marquis De Sade Copy Share Image
I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've got the capacity for all of the creativity that I want to put out there, which is… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
“I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to… — Cristina Garcia Copy Share Image