Torture Quotes

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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

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