Tortured Quotes

268 Tortured quotes by 234 unique authors

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible… — Learned Hand
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the… — Dana Rohrabacher
You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one… — Lester Bangs
One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick… — Russell Baker
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as… — Robert Browning
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured… — T.H. White
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own. — Jonathan Safran Foer
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness. — Bill W.
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my… — Christian Wiman
As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life.… — Andy Milonakis
I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of… — Andy Milonakis
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned,… — Peter Benenson
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured… — Richard Thompson
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven
Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life… — Keith Donohue
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But… — Dalai Lama
Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of… — Unknown Author

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