Quote by Luther Burbank

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people…

— Luther Burbank

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

— Anonymous

Fancy tortures more people than does reality

— Ouida

“The most effective torture is not physical—it is mental of course. The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could ever physically…

— Raine Miller

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

— Charles Horton Cooley

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike,…

— Anais Nin

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the…

— Robert Baer

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

— Molly Ivins

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're…

— Stellan Skarsgard

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly…

— Catherine the Great

That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to…

— Giles Fraser