Torture Quotes · Page 41

But even if you're not a 'Scrubs' follower you'll still have a good time, because all the songs are recognizable and presented…

— Sam Lloyd

There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If…

— Udo Kier

Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security,…

— Wesley Clark

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying…

— Ron Reagan

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that…

— Robert Baer

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…

— Francis Bacon

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

— Jonathan Swift

“Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.”

— Corey Ann Haydu

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may…

— Owen Feltham

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff…

— Adam Carolla

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument…

— Dan Brown

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

— Jerrold Nadler

[Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws…

— Hillary Clinton

“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery…

— Francis Bacon

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is…

— D. H. Lawrence

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

— Charles Horton Cooley

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…

— William Shakespeare

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the…

— Andrew Sullivan

“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the…

— Olli Jalonen

If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good…

— Anonymous

I had a hard time watching "Wolf Creek." It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of…

— Roger Ebert

“In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne