Peter Benenson Quotes

#1. Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

Peter Benenson

#2. I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

Philip Kerr

#3. Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

#4. It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.

Peter Benenson

#5. If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

Michael Morpurgo

#6. Cath couldn't control whether she saw Levi on campus. But she could worry about it, and as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

David Mitchell

#8. Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Peter Benenson

#9. I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Mike Scully

#10. The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.

Peter Benenson

#11. I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.

Larry McMurtry

#12. Mmph! Mmph. Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this.

Chuck Wendig

#13. Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power - because she's got money.

E. Lockhart

#14. Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

Hitori Nakano

#15. Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Elif Shafak

#16. Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented.
Reality needs none of the above.

Manoj Vaz

#17. A coward dies a thousand deaths ... a soldier dies but once.

J.M. Darhower

#18. Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

#19. It is worth dying to find out what life is.

T. S. Eliot

#20. My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

Liu Wen

#21. Hi, Lloyd," he said. "A little slow tonight, isn't it?" Lloyd

Stephen King