Enough Quote by Alan K. Simpson Download Open image “If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth” — Alan K. Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enough Ifs Inspirational Long Statistics Torture Truth
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. — John McCain 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 truth of… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions… — Stephen Stigler Copy Share Image
I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Across the nation, there are thousands of individuals serving life or life-equivalent sentences for crimes they committed as children. This means they will likely… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If children who commit crimes are not given the opportunity of a second chance, they may die in prison for acts made before having… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Stemming the tide of special interest campaign cash - and restoring fiscal responsibility in Congress - is no easy task. But there is one… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard. — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate. — Rena Kornreich Gelissen Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my friend again.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
