Quote

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
Back
Absence
Recent
Rack
Mean
Prison
Cruel
Racks
Meant
Unusual
Prisons
Sex
Denial
Cable
Television
Operations
Cables
Taken
Revolutionary
Stake
Change
Punishment
Ruling
Rulings
America
Burning
Stakes
Overcrowding

More quotes by Tom Clancy

Image
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
Tom Clancy
Image
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Tom Clancy
Image
One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.
Tom Clancy
Image
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy
Image
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Tom Clancy
Image
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Tom Clancy
Image
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that...
Tom Clancy
Image
Wars are begun by frightened men.
Tom Clancy
Image
I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
Tom Clancy
Image
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
Image
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
Tom Clancy
Image
The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.
Tom Clancy
Image
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
Image
America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.
Tom Clancy
Image
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: What if? and What next? (A third question, What now?, is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
Image
My life is a very simple life thank you
Tom Clancy
Image
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Tom Clancy
Image
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
Image
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
Image
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Tom Clancy