Elaine Scarry Quotes

The larger the prisoner's pain (the smaller the prisoner's world and therefore by comparison) the larger the torturer's world... pain becomes power... the torturer uses the prisoner's aliveness to crush the things that he lives for.

Elaine Scarry

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• Torture
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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Live
  • Family
  • Parents

• While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Air
  • China

• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Strange
  • Comfortable

• If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Follow

• It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Media
  • News

• Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Want
  • Sometimes

• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Famous

• Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Perfect

• I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

  

  Jay Roach

• I hope to continue working in film, television and theatre.

  

  Jeremy Bulloch
  • Hope
  • Theatre

• I used to pack a giant bag to check with every possible outfit I could think of, but now I have slimmed down my travel wardrobe.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • Travel

• Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

  

  David Wilkerson
  • America
  • Challenge
  • Prayer

• I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • History
  • Law
  • Gold

• Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.

  

  Daniela Pestova

• I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Hope
  • Stupid
  • Dog

• I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Pain
  • Regret

• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • English

• I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • She
  • Hand
  • Illness

• The larger the prisoner's pain (the smaller the prisoner's world and therefore by comparison) the larger the torturer's world... pain becomes power... the torturer uses the prisoner's aliveness to crush the things that he lives for.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Pain
  • Crush
  • Torture