Daarom Gedig Quotes & Sayings

The decision to use torture as a terror of retribution gives an inner satisfaction to the person who practises it, even if this is difficult for him to accept openly. Having been injured and humiliated by aggression, he can now humiliate in his turn those whom he considers to be his aggressors, and rediscover his self-esteem. As an ex-soldier of the Algerian War explains, forty years after the events: 'You could feel a certain form of jubilation while being present at such extreme scenes . . . Doing to a body whatever you feel like doing to it.' Reducing the other to a state of complete impotence gives you a feeling of supreme power. This feeling is one which torture gives you more than murder does, since the latter does not last: once dead, the other becomes an inert object and no longer produces that jubilation which stems from fully triumphing over the will of another, without his ceasing to exist. — Tzvetan Todorov

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately. — Susan Sarandon

I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it. — Peg Bracken

Zest is the secret of all beauty. — Christian Dior

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy. — Nelson Mandela

Thinking back, we decided the girls had been trying to talk to us all along, to elicit our help, but we had been to infatuated to see it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke ... She will need her sisterhood. — Gloria Steinem

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. — Rick Allen

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. — David Miliband

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. — Ellen DeGeneres

When in doubt, leave it out. — Joshua Bloch

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. — Mark Haddon