Quotes About Prisoner Abuse

#1. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

#2. In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

Amy Poehler

#3. The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

David Ignatius

#4. You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

#5. The foursome settled down in Kate's living room, which was furnished academically, i.e., from flea markets and yard sales.

Anonymous

#6. I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

Mary Wesley

#7. It's quite simple, really. Someone offers me chocolate cake
or donuts or something, I kind of black out, then come to and
I'm covered in crumbs and feel like I want to barf, and yet I have
no recollection of eating anything. It's the strangest thing.

Ophelia London

#8. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.

Catharine MacKinnon

#9. Player haters be givin' me harsh looks,
But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

Big L

#10. Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Elizabeth Price Foley

#11. Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

Steven Redhead

#12. He didn't answer, but I wasn't bothered. I was flattered that we'd gotten to this stage already, that our minds could wander without apology. We passed through a long swath of fireflies, thousands of them flashing all round us, and it felt like soaring through stars.

Lily King

#13. She unsettled him; he anchored her. Together, they could be more than they were apart.

Tessa Dare

#14. Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

Jerry Della Femina