Famous Quotes & Sayings

What he wasn't sentenced to was torture and rape, and that's what this case is about.

John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Charles Baudelaire

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

Maajid Nawaz

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Anthony Romero

There is no question that US interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.

Anthony Romero

There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.

Until you will stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight, ... We are at war, and I am a soldier and now you too will taste the reality of this situation.

Until we feel security you will be our targets and until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight. We are at war and I am a soldier.

Katharine Lee Bates

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Elizabeth Holmes

I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.

Rachel Zoe

Nicole showed up to meet me in an airport once wearing a sweatsuit, with a leopard-print neck pillow tied around her neck, an 'I Love L.A.' cap, and her hair in pigtails, ... I think she was doing it to torture me.

Edward Kennedy

No action -- criminal, administrative, or otherwise -- has been taken against the high civilian officials responsible for the authorization of torture and mistreatment by U.S. officials.

Rebecca MacKinnon

On March 5, 2011, protesters stormed the Egyptian state security headquarters. In real time, activists shared their discoveries on Twitter as they moved through a building that had until recently been one of the Mubarak regime's largest torture facilities.

Abby Wambach

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

Brian Eno

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

David Neeleman

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

Jeff Tweedy

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

He was tortured and that is the only reason he made those statements. We hope to be victorious on appeal.

Bruce Fein

He is a man who is not tortured by doubt over the correctness of his judicial philosophy.

He finds the practices that have been publicized aberrant like everyone else does and is deeply opposed to using torture as an interrogation technique. He was concerned that the amendment, however, would put at risk some of our undercover officers by making them subject to two sets of laws governing their conduct.

We're not going to torture people, but I don't believe there is a right to a painless execution, and certainly there is no guarantee. In the real world, nothing is 100 percent.

Patrick Fitzgerald

I have determined that American lives can be saved by ending the ongoing stonewalling by these two suspects, who have clearly orchestrated a campaign that endangers U.S. intelligence agents' lives. The Weekly Standard has opened my eyes to the fact that my being previously unprepared to torture is deeply immoral, given the American lives that I believe can be saved by the urgently needed information Cheney and Rove possess.

I am confounded by the tortured tale of these negotiations. It is unfortunate that it had to come down to an illegal strike.

William Collins

But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseTo find out what it really means.

William Collins

But all they want to do Is tie the poem to a chair with rope And torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose To find out what it really means.

I have a lot of anger going out toward that nurse. I hate her. She stood by and watched my baby being tortured by all those guards. My baby was cold-blooded murdered.

I have lodged a complaint with the court to investigate the crime against my client and torture against him during and after his arrest.

Karen Hughes

I feel the pain that you are feeling, ... It is impossible to say that the plight of women was better under Saddam Hussein . Women were tortured, they had their children tortured in front of them.

Nicholas Kristof

If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak-willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger.

Mary Karr

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

that defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions.

That a woman who is separated, was tortured and exiled now becomes the president of Chile is really incredible. This will truly have an impact in Latin America.

Mathias Rust

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!