Torture Quotes

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry.

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety.

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

That's a weird way to torture yourself. Just watch a movie, over and over, that you hate. That's really funny - that's probably exactly what hell is like.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

People love that monkey torture.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.

Power is not a means

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?