Torture Quotes · Page 19

There was no terrorism in the Middle East until Washington brought it there with invasions, bombings, and torture.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in…

— Dov Davidoff

“For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Not too much. I never got into killing things.” “Preferring slow torture.” “You”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the…

— Bertrand Russell

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

— Teresa of Avila

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

— Michael Moore

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of…

— Ayn Rand

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a…

— Sheldon Richman

When you play in smaller places with a smaller symphony, sometimes there's a difference in quality. Sometimes it's murderous. Sometimes it's real…

— Anne Murray

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing…

— Andrew Sullivan

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of…

— Carl Jung

There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone…

— Anonymous

One of the keys to learning for me has been to not get so hung up on the past. It's important to…

— Georges St-Pierre

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express…

— Aleister Black

Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This…

— Robert Winston

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining…

— Anonymous

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible.…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that…

— Marie Lu

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them…

— Naomi Wolf

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and…

— David Lloyd George

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so:…

— Abraham Lincoln

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of…

— Alberto J. Mora

“Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.”

— Jessica E. Larsen

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

— Tori Amos

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

— Honore de Balzac

Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.

— Andy Cole

We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place.

— Seymour Hersh

“A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

— Heather Brewer

“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.”

— Anna Funder

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

— Theophile Gautier

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

— Penelope Cruz

Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.

— Audie Cornish

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

— Alex Gibney

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

— Mark Danner

“His eyes were alive with intellectual torture, as if pure thought was pain.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.”

— Mahavira

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

— Jennifer Beals