Best Torture Sayings

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The healthy man does not torture others. — Carl Jung
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable,… — Bertrand Russell
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which… — Octavio Paz
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Unknown Author
I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were… — Erich Fromm
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Unknown Author
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished… — Victor Hugo
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions… — Moby
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and… — Jose Ramos-Horta
As for me, this is my story: I worked and was tortured. You know what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov
How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms… — Mahatma Gandhi
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more… — Winston Smith
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We… — Jose Mujica
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I… — Lord Byron
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are… — Carl Jung
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... — Jeremiah Denton
What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to… — Unknown Author
John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid… — Paul Galanti

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