Torture Quotes

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strik...

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturi...

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some thi...

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybo...

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that...

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you...

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, th...

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of no...

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his mere...

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded ...

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their...

You can't have occupation and human rights.

It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown lan...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of ...

Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and porno...

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

I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in p...

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...

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

Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime h...

Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see...

Ironically, torture requires empathy, too, in the sense that one cannot deliberately inflict pain wi...

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as...

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture ...

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forg...

You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mu...

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in tha...

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out w...

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation tech...

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at hi...

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewa...

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving...