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Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:… — C.J. Sansom
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione
Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken.… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune… — Jack Handey
The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.… — Emil Fackenheim
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. — Zane Grey
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to… — Kofi Annan
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of… — Noam Chomsky
Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. — Unknown Author
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes… — Leo Tolstoy
We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict… — Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless… — Unknown Author
To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and… — Unknown Author
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold… — Samuel Johnson
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. — Tony Kushner
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration. — Jane Mayer
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What… — Peter Kreeft
People love that monkey torture. — Thomas Lennon
Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their… — Mark Lawrence
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces… — Ayn Rand
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. — Brian Eno

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