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I was subjected to a pretty brutal public beating. The film came out and, you could have heard a pin drop. Not even the crickets weren`t chirping. But the other thing I never heard was one single word of apology. I thought I dealt with that stuff. But the human heart can bear the scars of resentment, and it will come out when you`re overwrought and you take a few drinks. - On the hostile critical response to The Passion of the Christ (2004)

- Mel Gibson

We are enormously relieved they are released unharmed. But we remain outraged that two journalists who were doing their job were subjected to this kind of treatment.

- Richard Smith

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

- Jonathan Shapiro

(Subjected to this flood of unfamiliar sounds, Baker and his classmates soon found themselves trying to stay afloat in the same boat.) Friendships and camaraderie quickly grew, ... We did everything together: lunch, studying, dinner and then socializing.

- Cheryl Baker

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

- Christopher Columbus

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

- Robert Frank

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn`t stand what I thought.

- Peter Steele

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

- R.D. Laing

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

- Adam Barrett

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

- Albert Alschuler

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you`re subjected to. My God.

- Allen Johnson

The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense,

- Ann Munzenmaier

The factors cited by card issuers are very broad. It appears that anyone - not just people in financial difficulties - could be subjected to a much higher rate for very insignificant reasons.

- Ashley Hahn