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Any brutal torture of Saudi women activists would show no limit to the Saudi authorities' campaign of wanton cruelty against critics and human rights activists, any government that tortures women for demanding basic rights should face withering international criticism, not unblinking Michael Page and UK support. – Michael Page	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Doubling down on a regime that gases its people, that barrel bombs its people, that tortures people who it arrests simply for protesting and for claiming their rights -- that's just not going to work. – Samantha Power	Found on CNN 9 years ago
My job as a showrunner was to figure out new ways to torture Jay every week, we set him on fire, we cut off his limbs, we poisoned him repeatedly, we electrocuted genitals - we're constantly subjecting him to tortures but he never once complained. – Simon Rich	Found on Reuters 10 years ago
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being. – Lord Byron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. – Sir Arthur Eddington	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you. – John Updike	added by anonymous 15 years ago
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. – Nicholas Chamfort	added by anonymous 15 years ago

Any brutal torture of Saudi women activists would show no limit to the Saudi authorities' campaign of wanton cruelty against critics and human rights activists, any government that tortures women for demanding basic rights should face withering international criticism, not unblinking Michael Page and UK support.

– Michael Page

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Doubling down on a regime that gases its people, that barrel bombs its people, that tortures people who it arrests simply for protesting and for claiming their rights -- that's just not going to work.

– Samantha Power

Found on CNN
9 years ago

My job as a showrunner was to figure out new ways to torture Jay every week, we set him on fire, we cut off his limbs, we poisoned him repeatedly, we electrocuted genitals - we're constantly subjecting him to tortures but he never once complained.

– Simon Rich

Found on Reuters
10 years ago

And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

– Lord Byron

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

– Isaac Asimov

added by anonymous
15 years ago

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

– Sir Arthur Eddington

added by anonymous
15 years ago

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

– John Updike

added by anonymous
15 years ago

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

– Nicholas Chamfort

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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