Quotes
Authors
Saadi Yacef
"Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him." --
Saadi Yacef
#Pain Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Long Quotes
“Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.”
Source : "Carmel Point". Poem by Robinson Jeffers, 1951.
“Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.”
“Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.”
“Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.”
“It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.”
“Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.”
“Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.”
“Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.”