Torture Quotes

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

Don't torture yourself... that's my job

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

Now it is nothing but torture.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Only cowards torture women.

Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.