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I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture… — Yoweri Museveni
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most… — Oscar Romero
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. — Colleen McCullough
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. — John Calvin
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two… — Louise Thaden
Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! — Bertha von Suttner
In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice… — Eugene Ionesco
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian… — Grantland Rice
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in… — Marya Hornbacher
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to… — Unknown Author
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder...… — Inge Genefke
Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire,… — Ignatius of Antioch
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally… — Richard D. Ryder
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills… — Vikas Swarup
Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to let you live.… — Tony Evans
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now… — Elena Ferrante
As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that… — Rupert Hughes
Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war, and I… — Mohamed Khan
Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .… — Abraham Lincoln
A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture… — Harold MacMillan
Remember one very fundamental thing about life: Any experience that has not been lived will hang around you, will persist: "Finish me! Live me! Complete… — Rajneesh
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing… — Ian Mcewan
Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. — Paulo Coelho

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