Best Torture Proverbs

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If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. — Chris Hayes
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered… — James Risen
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib,… — Marty Meehan
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve… — Michael Arnzen
Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that… — Geneen Roth
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture. — George Weinberg
The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... — Inge Genefke
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than… — Jonathan Messinger
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. — Dave Grohl
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand… — Olivia Wilde
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one,… — Philip Wollen
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness… — Alice Miller
I had prepared myself for prison and torture as a soldier in peacetime prepares for the hardships of war. I had studied the lives of… — Richard Wurmbrand
Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. — Don Roff
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally… — Albert Maltz
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is… — John Foxe
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. — Yousef Munayyer
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session. — Jackie Earle Haley
There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can… — Mike Mason
The United States does not torture. — George W. Bush
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice… — Imogen Cunningham
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost… — Joanna Macy
For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a… — Marshall McLuhan
Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the… — David Limbaugh

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