Torture Quotes · Page 19

“Next to not living with those one loves, the worst torture is living with those one doesn't love.”

— Julian Barnes

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

— Richard Cohen

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I…

— Jim Mattis

“When you are singled out for torture because of your faith, can religion still be a beacon?”

— Jodi Picoult

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

— Martin Seligman

“Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.”

— Michael Monroe

“Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

— United Nations

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think…

— Cenk Uygur

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go…

— Emmylou Harris

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Why? The ease with which he manipulates words is his greatest talent. Was his difficulty a result of his torture? Something more?…

— Suzanne Collins

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those…

— Judith Butler

“... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it…

— Ryan Hurd

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he…

— Bob Beauprez

“It was if the devil himself had devised the perfect earthly torture for Lady Alicia Lawrence. “Now how will I occupy myself…

— Celeste Bradley

Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The…

— Alice Jamieson

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are…

— Livia Bitton-Jackson

“I stole looks. First was her hair, long and loopy and pulled back. Second, she has the prettiest face, oopen-like and up-looking.…

— Paul Griffin

“Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and…

— Laurie Matthew

“During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a pot of…

— Gilles Quispel

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror…

— Mark Gatiss

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order…

— Charles Darwin

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away…

— Margaret Mead

When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with…

— Simon Wiesenthal

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how…

— Rebecca Goldstein

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but…

— Anonymous

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

— Paulo Coelho

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

— Anthony Burgess

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

— Rose Schneiderman

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

— Bertrand Russell

Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.

— Peter Maurer

“The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” —psychiatrist Carl Jung2”

— Travis Langley

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures.

— Colleen McCullough

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

— Kathryn Hahn

“Middle-aged memory [is] an instrument of torture: you reach for the fruit of memory and it vanishes, to appear when you no…

— Castle Freeman Jr

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity…

— Sam Harris

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

— Francis Bacon

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

— Zane Grey