"In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology."

-- Martha Gellhorn

#Our World Quotes #Government Quotes #Needs Quotes

“You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
“It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.”
“I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.”

Source : "Party Gurlz". Interview with Natalie Dembinska, theforumist.com. October 13, 2014.
“I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.”
“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”
“Women are good for only one thing - lying on their backs.”
“A friend must not be injured, even in jest.”
“People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.”

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