Bread Quote by Sarah Vowell

Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few…

— John McCain

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those…

— Jonah Goldberg

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.

— Peter Maurer

Every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the…

— William Shakespeare

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his…

— Joseph Addison

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane…

— Bill Shuster

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we…

— Carlos Fuentes

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what…

— Seneca the Younger

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers…

— Primo Levi

The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we…

— Jo Coudert