People Quote by B. Traven Download Open image “The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.” — B. Traven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Today Torture Yesterday
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army… — James Risen Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need &… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
