"The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder..."

-- Inge Genefke

#Evil Quotes #Soul Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Seriously. It was running out at Rolling Stone. First of all, they didn't feel the need for a dissident conservative voice in a world where certain conservative aspects had become intellectually dominant. I would actually argue against that, but on the surface of it, in the [Bill] Clinton years the market economy triumphed, certain libertarian ideas became ordinary, and certain early-20th-century ideas about centralization of government and economic planning and socialism with a small "s" had obviously gone out the window. The Cold War was over, blah blah blah.”
“How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.
“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.”

Source : M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.448, Spectra
“Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.”
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.”
“I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?”
“I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.”

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