Torture famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
-- Albert Maltz -
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
-- Amiri Baraka -
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
-- Aristotle -
I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
-- Bela Lugosi -
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
-- Brian Eno -
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
-- Carson McCullers -
To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.
-- Charles Addams -
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
-- Chris Hayes -
Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
-- Claude Monet -
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
-- Don Roff -
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
-- Douglas Coupland -
The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
-- Edward Kennedy -
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
-- Emmanuelle Beart -
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
-- Gary L. Francione -
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
-- Gene Simmons -
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
-- George Etherege -
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
-- George Weinberg -
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.
-- Jackie Earle Haley -
I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
-- James McGreevey -
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
-- Jane Mayer -
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
-- Jeffrey Archer -
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
-- Jerrold Nadler -
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
-- Jerrold Nadler -
Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.
-- Jerry Seinfeld -
Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.
-- Jerry Vlasak -
It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.
-- Jesse Ventura -
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
-- John Calvin -
Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture
-- John McCain -
There's no business that's too small for government to torture
-- John Stossel -
Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.
-- Karl Lehenbauer -
It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.
-- Kesha -
Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.
-- Kristin Cashore -
Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!
-- Lady G -
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
-- Linda Chavez -
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
-- Meriwether Lewis -
Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.
-- Ogden Nash -
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.
-- Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor -
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
-- Pope Francis -
Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.
-- Rene Balcer -
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
-- Robert E. Howard -
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
-- Storm Jameson -
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
-- Tahereh Mafi -
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
-- Tony Kushner -
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
-- Victor Hugo -
Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
-- W. H. Auden -
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
-- Yousef Munayyer -
All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
-- Alexander Liberman -
Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.
-- Martin Starr -
The violence at the end is about personal torture.
-- Shane Meadows -
I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture. The military is not going to like me saying that, but that's what it is. Boot camp is one of the most torturous things I've ever been through.
-- Travis Aaron Wade -
I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.
-- Phoebe Gloeckner -
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
-- Francis Asbury
