Torturings Quotes & Sayings

Someday is a dangerous word. Sometimes, it meant to be Never. — Harsh Gupta

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Just as ancient tyrants gave the people bread and circuses, in exchanged for their loyalty, so visions can acquire a tyrannical sway over people's minds by offering them an exalted sense of themselves in exchange for their loyalty to the vision through all the vicissitudes of facts to the contrary. This self-exaltation can take on many forms on many issues.
Whether the particular issue is crime, automobile safety, income statistics, military defense, or overpopulation theories, the one consistency among them is that the conclusions reached exalt those who share the vision over the great unwashed who do not. — Thomas Sowell

All that is from the gods is full of Providence. — Marcus Aurelius

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. — Al Franken

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure. — Elbert Hubbard

The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled into the flames from an overhead basket, and the crowd reveled in their cries. "Certainly this is not really a worse spectacle than the burning of heretics, or the torturings and public executions of every kind," Elias writes. "It only appears worse because the joy in torturing living creatures shows itself so nakedly and purposelessly, without any excuse before reason. The revulsion aroused in us by the mere report of the institution, a reaction which must be taken as 'normal' for the present-day standard of affect control, demonstrates once again the long term change of personality structure." 15 Elias argued that — Nicholas Wade

Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When truthsayers have the courage to say the emperor is wearing no clothes, whether you agree with their point of view or not, send them love. They are to be acknowledged for speaking their truth. — Barbara Marciniak

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create. — Ashton Kutcher

The lord has already provided everything that we need and all the necessary conditions needed to help us to succeed — Sunday Adelaja

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' — Henry Rollins

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating. — Leonardo DiCaprio

So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them. — Upton Sinclair