Torture Quotes

729 Torture quotes by 568 unique authors

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That… — Robert Green Ingersoll
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. — Frederick The Great
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to… — Sean MacBride
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,… — George Carlin
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep… — Christopher Hitchens
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to… — Charles Colson
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. — Henry Van Dyke
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. — Gregg Easterbrook
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It… — George H. Smith
Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained… — Unknown Author
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to… — Isaac Asimov
Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude. — Mark Thomas
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' — John Fugelsang
Now it is nothing but torture. — Sigmund Freud
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. — Ronald Coase
Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. — Ronald Coase
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our… — George W. Bush
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. — Edward Kennedy

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