"The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually……" — Naomi Klein

"The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections."

— Naomi Klein

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale… — Bob Barr
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just… — Roseanne Barr
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it… — Jean Baudrillard
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I… — Bjork
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. — Jorge Luis Borges
The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing… — Anthony Bourdain
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I… — Jo Brand
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of… — Jo Brand

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