"I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark."

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Source : "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

Jane Mayer

#New York Quotes #Mean Quotes #Dark Quotes

“You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.25, Vintage
“Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
“I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy, though I'm sure if I were in therapy for a lot of years, it would turn out to be a lot more than laziness. After awhile, it was, like, too embarrassing for me not to go on auditions. I had to be humiliated into it.”
“Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.”
“I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!”
“As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.”
“People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.”
“No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children”

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