Peter Benenson Quotes

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Peter Benenson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 31, 1921 - February 25, 2005

Topics

WorldSecretOutTortureCommitted

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

Andrew Sean Greer

WeirdBackRiskSentimentalHold

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

Melissa Rosenberg

MeIdeasWritingWorldHusbandYou

As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.

Robert Picardo

BusyYouFastGoActorWay

Every screenwriter worships at the altar of Robert Towne, and we do.

Stephen McFeely

AltarEveryScreenwriterRobert

Bret Hart is my cousin, I'm told. Didn't know that until I was, I don't know, 28, 25.

Roddy Piper

KnowHartUntilCousin

On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

LiveLawThinkBetterLawyersWhole

I think the American people believe in stopping and preventing terrorism pretty much at any cost.

Monica Crowley

PeopleBelieveThinkAmericanCost

My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

FatherRelationshipProudSomething

My tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing.

Chrissy Teigen

BeautifulTearsToleranceYouOver

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

Brooke Elliott

LoveTimeTestCircumstancesIdea

In the early days, a Georgia college kid named Chris Putnam created a virus that made your Facebook profile resemble MySpace, then the social-media incumbent. It went rampant and started deleting user data as well. Instead of siccing the F.B.I. dogs on Putnam, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz invited him for an interview and offered him a job.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

JobCollegeDataEarlyKidDogs

I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.

ASAP Rocky

GoodMeTreatWantWayEqual

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