Torture Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

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

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

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there.

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

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

Chess is mental torture.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

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

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

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.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

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

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

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

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

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

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

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

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

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy

Now it is nothing but torture.

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

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

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

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

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

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

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

Only cowards torture women.

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

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.