#torture

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. ↗

— Marisha Pessl

#torture #torture

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#days #deserved #go #half #i

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#ever #exquisite #form #invented #known

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#cent #fifteen #greatest #less #most

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#employ #regardless #techniques #terrorists #torture

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. ↗

— John Cusack

#intellectual #investigated #lot #may #people

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#chaos #cuba #finally #free #go

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture. ↗

— George Weinberg

#i #known #out #people #sense

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ↗

— Matt Groening

#emotional #families #love #overcoming #torture