I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were… — Steven W. Mosher Copy Share Image
“Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Got any new ways to torture and kill people?” “Hmmm,” said the voice. “Did you try stabbing them?” “Of course. That’s one… — Jason Z. Christie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people… — Condoleezza Rice 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
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
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
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
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Other personalities are created to handle new traumas, their existence usually occurring one at a time. Each has a singular purpose and… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
“Those screams had been growing steadily louder, as the torture masters of Eld worked their way down the line of new prisoners.… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we… — Laura Poitras Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Seth envied them that freedom as his naked body hung lankly from the ceiling, with his hands shackled over his head. He’d… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
“—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution… — Ba Jin Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“With that Nox turned a knob. There was a delay, but that was how the machine worked. First it gathered information about… — Cate Campbell Beatty Copy Share Image
J.J. Abrams wanted me to do a part in Lost and we probably had three meetings, and I finally turned it down,… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can… — Rupert Hughes Copy Share Image
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory… — Lidia Yusupova Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, lies with the realities concealed from us. This has always been the case. While the American public has… — Jennifer Harbury Copy Share Image
“I stood there, staring at the sleeping man snoring peacefully in my bed, unaware of the intrusion. I felt like a boy… — Ellie Fox Copy Share Image
Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
