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It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva… — Edward Kennedy
Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a… — John Knox
Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that… — Gangaji
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick… — Russell Baker
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing… — Ben Gibbard
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its… — Octave Mirbeau
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! — Mariella Frostrup
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions… — Frederick Leboyer
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially… — Erik Naggum
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those… — Dwight Frye
In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they… — Evgeny Morozov
I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage… — Michelle Shocked
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew… — Abraham Pais
At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling… — T.C. Boyle
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief. — Tahereh Mafi
When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. — Victoria Abril
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven
The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. — Alain de Botton
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a… — Tertullian
Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates. — Jerry Vlasak
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South… — Junichiro Koizumi
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. — Jules Michelet
No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men. — Enver Hoxha

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