Peter Maurer Quotes
Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
Peter Maurer
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
N. Scott Momaday
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
Ed Gillespie
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
Adam Michnik
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
J. J. Watt
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Camryn Manheim
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse
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We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.
Tommy Chong
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You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.
Richard Grossman
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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Van Morrison
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There are more stakes in Mary and Jane, which is always good.
Deborah Kaplan
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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
Peter Maurer