The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish.' I… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“While in general I avoid the use of torture - torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance - the threat of torture… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You’re too visible, Albert,” Hadrian explained. “Can’t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it.… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of… — Alfred W. McCoy Copy Share Image
The Railway Man was a particularly intense and immersive experience. I definitely got carried away. I lost about 35 pounds. I really… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Because you're a sick fuck who tortures people!" He wagged his finger at me. "You make it sound so simple . It… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind… — Cheryl Hersha Copy Share Image
Religion has convinced people that theres an invisible man ¦ Living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?… — Richard D. Ryder Copy Share Image
“Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Whatever they have done, or are doing, or will do to the people locked away forever in Guantanamo Bay, they will do… — Banole Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body...… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
“The uncertainty wore on him. The conditions in jail--the handcuffs, the noise, the filth, the crowding--mangled his senses. It's likely that, if… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is… — Jennifer Daskal Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock Copy Share Image
