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Torture Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- 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…
- It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the…
- In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:…
- Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
- There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then…
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