Methods Of Torture Quotes

#1. In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

Edward St. Aubyn

#2. The best neighbor you can have is a tree, a living tree. They listen more than they talk, provide shade on hot days, give you food and shelter, and don't ask for anything in return.

Michael J. Sullivan

#3. Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

George W. Bush

#4. God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.

Adrienne Maree Brown

#5. I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

Johnny Depp

#6. I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Mary Karr

#7. The sheriffs swore in new deputies and ordered new rifles; and the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

John Steinbeck

#8. That would be the greatest misfortune of all! To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!

Jane Austen

#9. Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

Kim Kardashian

#10. There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

John Galt

#11. One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

Mechthild Of Magdeburg

#12. How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

Ian McEwan

#13. Utopians are heedless of methods. To render the human species happy, they are prepared to subject it to murder, torture, lethal injection, incineration, deportation, sterilization, quartering, lobotomy, electrocution, military invasion, bombing, etc.

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

#14. Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

John Yoo

#15. Also, what if Adam and Ever were merely symbols of companionship? And Eve, different from him, woman instead of man, was simply a tool by which God noted that companionship was something you got from a person outside yourself? What if that's all it was? And why not?

Chinelo Okparanta

#16. Caballero said the CIA's psychological torture methods often degenerated into physical torture, citing a young woman who was stripped, starved, deprived of sleep, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and sexually molested.

Anonymous

#17. Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46

Robert Goodwin

#18. Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders

John Yoo

#19. I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

Joan Allen