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Torture Quotes

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

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2.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
Albert Maltz

3.
The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
Amiri Baraka

4.
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.
Cassandra Clare

5.
If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.
Chris Hayes

6.
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
Claude Monet

7.
For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
Grace Kelly

8.
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Brian Eno

9.
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences.
Meriwether Lewis

10.
When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.
Doyle Brunson

11.
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
Gary L. Francione

12.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Paulo Coelho

13.
Love is a reciprocal torture.
Marcel Proust

14.
Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov

15.
One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.
Linda Chavez

16.
Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.
Tony Kushner

17.
Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
Yousef Munayyer

18.
Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks?
Donald Trump

19.
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.
Francis Asbury

20.
Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
Storm Jameson

21.
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
Jean-Marie Le Pen

22.
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.
Rumi

23.
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something
Max Lucado

24.
Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.
W. H. Auden

25.
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
Paulo Freire

26.
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.
George Etherege

27.
There's no business that's too small for government to torture
John Stossel

28.
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
Albert Camus

29.
Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive
Simon Wiesenthal

30.
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Emile M. Cioran

31.
With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
Jeffrey Archer

32.
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.
Theresa May

33.
Don't torture yourself... that's my job
Carolyn Jones

34.
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
Vladimir Nabokov

35.
Now it is nothing but torture.
Sigmund Freud

36.
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
Pope Benedict XVI

37.
All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.
Alexander Liberman

38.
Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy
Aristotle

39.
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
Tahereh Mafi

40.
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
Gene Simmons

41.
Only cowards torture women.
Patricia Briggs

42.
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
Don Roff

43.
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
Edgar Allan Poe

44.
Torture doesn't work.
John McCain

45.
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem

46.
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Frances Conroy

47.
Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.
Karl Lehenbauer

48.
And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
George Weinberg

49.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Jane Mayer

50.
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le Pen