Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“What’s the definition of torture? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s when someone you can’t stand to be parted from leaves… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don't know how to ask the right question.… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985,… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
To me the fact that a Vice President can go to Capitol Hill and lobby for torture is just unbelievable. Just unbelievable!… — John Dean Copy Share Image
The running pants were tolerable, Drustan decided, relieved. The blue trews had clearly been a torture device and would have strangled a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the United States and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
We need to shut down this Gitmo prison? Well, don't shut it down - we just need to start an advertising campaign.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale.… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist,… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
“From the Inquisition to the Gestapo and the “Battle of Algiers,” history teaches us that, in the production of reliable intelligence, regardless… — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character,… — James Preston Rogers Copy Share Image
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Anonymous 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
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“…is methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is tell me where the girl with the pointed ears is being held, and you walk free.… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image