It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own. — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. — John McCain Copy Share Image
If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever imagine, and that… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I think I have made you up just to torture myself—and there are other times that I know you must be… — Amy A. Bartol Copy Share Image
I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing… — Howard Coble Copy Share Image
I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.” — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
