Christianity Quote by Steven Pinker

If you are going to call yourself a Christian-and I don't-then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would…

— Ron Reagan

“If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about…

— Evan Minton

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

— Albert Camus

“The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness.…

— C.S. Lewis

I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done…

— Eli Roth

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get…

— Iain Banks

The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity.…

— George H. Smith

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

— Molly Ivins

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for…

— James McGreevey

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