Able Quote by Sylvia Plath

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience,…

— Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

— Sylvia Plath

“The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a…

— Napoleon Hill

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

...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

“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

“The apotheosis of the controlling mind is monstrous and terrifying.”

— Stewart Stafford

The imagination is always the best torturer.

— Bryce Courtenay

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'm able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

— Wim Hof

Any attempt to control one's mind inflicts misery on the controller and the controlled

— Anonymous