Best Torture Wisdom
729 Torture quotes by 568 unique authors
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Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime:…
— C.J. Sansom
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their…
— Isabel Paterson
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Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
— Gary L. Francione
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Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken.…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune…
— Jack Handey
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.…
— Emil Fackenheim
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
— Zane Grey
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Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder…
— Peter Benenson
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This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to…
— Kofi Annan
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Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
— Noam Chomsky
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Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.
— Unknown Author
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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes…
— Leo Tolstoy
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless…
— Unknown Author
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— Unknown Author
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An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
— Samuel Johnson
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Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
— Tony Kushner
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Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern…
— Doris "Granny D" Haddock
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Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
— Jane Mayer
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Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What…
— Peter Kreeft
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People love that monkey torture.
— Thomas Lennon
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their…
— Mark Lawrence
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Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces…
— Ayn Rand
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
— Brian Eno
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