Torture Quotes

Torture Quote of the day

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

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

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

[Screenwriting] is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder.

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.

Chess is mental torture.