Torture Quotes

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

The healthy man does not torture others.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

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.

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

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.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.