And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is:… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
“The programme into which Cheryl was inducted combined all the different ways the intelligence community had learned could cause intense psychological change… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
“And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
In my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me,… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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