Torture Quotes - Page 19

• Anyone will say anything under torture.

  George Galloway

  Say Anything

  "Interview with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. May 27, 2005.

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• Rock music pays off. Rock music takes me on a joyride. Rock music keeps me off the hell city bus. Rock music will always look out for me. But I will not let my torture profanity demon shoot it down.

  Wesley Willis

  Rocks, Cities, Looks

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• It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Administration, Used

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• Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

  John Knox

  Art, Views, Practice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 208, 1895.

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• Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

  Gangaji

  Beautiful, Self, Perfect

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• One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

  Russell Baker

  Christian, Smell, Hypocrisy

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• You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Self, Long

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

  Mariella Frostrup

  Book, Reading, Play

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• Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions , we cannot but wonder why such a torture has been inflicted on the child. How could a being who has been aggressed in this way, while totally helpless, develop into a relaxed, loving, trusting person? Indeed, he will always never be able to trust anyone in life. He will always be on the defensive, unable to open up to others and to life.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Children, Emotional, Levels

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• Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

  Peter Benenson

  Government, World, Opinion

  The Observer, May 28, 1961.

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• Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

  Peter Benenson

  Thinking, What Matters, Government

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• Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.

  Erik Naggum

  Long, Cost, Life Is

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• Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  Arthur Eddington

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Practice, People

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• Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.

  Dwight Frye

  Blood, Hands, Vampire

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• In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Past, Order, Data

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• I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.

  Michelle Shocked

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  Abraham Pais

  Moving, Games, Would Be

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

  T.C. Boyle

  Prayer, Hands, Joy

  T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.348, Penguin

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

  Tahereh Mafi

  Relief

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• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  Victoria Abril

  Morning, Character, Voice

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• The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

  B. Traven

  Yesterday, People, Today

  B. Traven (1980). “The treasures of B. Traven”, Jonathan Cape

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• The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

  Alain de Botton

  Hands, Telephones, Beloved

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

  Tertullian

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Tertullian (1842). “Apologetic and Practical Treatises”, p.52

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

  Jerry Vlasak

  Animal, Our Society, Tolerate

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