“From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Anyway, the [Barack] Obama administration took four years to say they weren't gonna do anything on George W. Bush. There were all… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“The way I see Jesus has not changed much at all since I was a child, but my imprisonment and all that… — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
And in some way, Clary thought, he meant it, meant his gratitude. He had long ago lost the ability to distinguish between… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Spittle flew from Jango’s lips as he shouted at the man in a woman’s voice that sounded like it was made of… — Cedric Nye Copy Share Image
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border,… — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Tamlin's eyes were so green- green like the meadows of his estate. A shade that washed away the memories flooding through me,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Many of the soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, and have not been supported by the government when they've requested psychological help.… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
“What about animals slaughtered for our consumption? who among us would be able to continue eating pork chops after visiting a factory… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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