#torture

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand. ↗

— Albert Maltz

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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. ↗

— Ed Markey

#engage #terrorism #those #torture #war

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

#boat #end #life #longing #madness

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#become #been #clear #custody #detainees

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. ↗

— Yousef Munayyer

#acknowledgment #torture

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#argue #believing #into #men #them

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed. ↗

— John Pilger

#course #doing #how #i #i think

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity! ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#awful #eternity #fascinating #hear #him

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train. ↗

— Shepard Smith

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