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Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for… — Davey Havok
Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long. — Brad Pitt
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture,… — Christopher Hitchens
President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.' — Amy Poehler
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but… — River Phoenix
Marriage is an exercise in torture. — Frances Conroy
For a woman, forty is torture, the end. — Grace Kelly
I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. — Juliet Stevenson
But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights… — Shailene Woodley
Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time — Joey Lauren Adams
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle… — Ann Coulter
No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone. — Ann Coulter
I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the… — Christopher Lee
To me, torture would be watching sports on television. — Quentin Tarantino
I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you! — Bela Lugosi
Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture — John McCain
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people… — Arundhati Roy
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they… — Edward Abbey
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. — Edward Abbey
If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at… — William James
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept,… — Maxim Gorky
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over… — Simone de Beauvoir

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