Torture Quotes
729 quotes by 593 authors
-
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury…
— David Attenborough
-
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
-
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
-
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
— Emmanuelle Beart
-
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among…
— Bob Beauprez
-
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
— Alfred Adler
-
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
— Geraldine Brooks
-
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing…
— Geraldine Brooks
-
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is…
— Luther Burbank
-
What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.
— Tori Amos
-
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the…
— Isaac Asimov
-
Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it.
— Jon Stewart
-
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic…
— Carl Sagan
-
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
-
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
— Tony Lema
-
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried…
— Dale Carnegie
-
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my…
— Haim Ginott
-
The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
-
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural…
— Cesare Pavese
-
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be…
— A. P. Herbert
Who Wrote These Torture Quotes
593 authors contributed a total of 729 Torture Quotes, led by these top contributors: