Tortures Quotes

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The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the… — William E. Gladstone
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,… — Emma Goldman
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like… — Denis Diderot
Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is… — Stephen F. Lynch
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that… — Salman Rushdie
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. — Gene Simmons
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called… — John Updike
How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… — Thomas Hardy
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much… — Charles Dickens
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because youâ€™re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for… — Charlotte Bronte
Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all… — Paulo Coelho
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that… — David Gemmell
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart… — Roland Barthes
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their… — Margaret Atwood
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be… — George Bernard Shaw

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