Fifteen Quote by Luther Burbank

Less than 15% of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

— 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

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

— Molly Ivins

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

...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

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

“The most effective torture is not physical, it's mental.”

— Raine Miller