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Torture Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- 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…
- If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
- I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture,…
- There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild,…
- Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible…
More Torture Quotes
- What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
- In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
- Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery… — Francis Bacon
- Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for… — Luther Burbank