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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. — Stanislaw Lem
Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I… — John Pilger
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us… — Pope Francis
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath… — Huey Newton
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease… — Paracelsus
Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who… — Alan Dershowitz
The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering… — Sylvia Plath
No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which… — Albert Camus
The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have… — Jeanette Winterson
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst… — Zoltan Kodaly
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant… — Ryan Gosling
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our… — Ariel Dorfman
Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on… — Robert Green Ingersoll
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a… — George Etherege
If the heart is cleansed by the love of Jesus Christ, and if the heart loves Him, one can resist all tortures. What would a… — Richard Wurmbrand
One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England — Steven Morrissey
I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that… — Haim Ginott
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… — Ayn Rand
People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional… — Lisa See
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf. — Ian Woosnam
Anyone will say anything under torture. — George Galloway
Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look… — Wesley Willis

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