Torture Quotes

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.

[Deadpool] is definitely squirm-inducing. It's a pretty hard R, violence-wise. But cartoony, also. Maybe fast-forward through to torture scenes.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

The United States does not torture.

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

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.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.