Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Answers to leading questions under torture naturally tell us nothing about the beliefs of the accused; but they are good evidence for the beliefs…

— C.S. Lewis

“I do not believe it is within my nature to torture anyone”

— Tobias Wade

“The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.” —psychiatrist Carl Jung2”

— Travis Langley

Anyone who has been tortured, remains tortured.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)”

— C.G. Jung

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“is desperately hard for men to accept that there is a direct path from the highest ideals to the torture chamber—for”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.”

— Heather Day Gilbert

“…He has finally learned that lying to oneself is an offense for which human beings seldom grant themselves absolution. He comes to believe that…

— James Lee Burke