Torture Quotes - Page 35

• While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

  Jeremiah Denton

  Voice, Messages, Conservative

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• What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. ...I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. ...Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.

  Kevin Drew

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying.

  Paul Galanti

  Enemy, Vietnam, Prison

  "Hot Stories for the Week of August 16 - 20". "The Beltway Boys" with Mort Kondracke, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2004.

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• Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

  Davey Havok

  Fashion, Animal, Abuse

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• Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

  Brad Pitt

  Seven Years, Long, Wish

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• If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doe, Ifs

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.410, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doe, Slavery, Tests

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.410, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

  Amy Poehler

  Monday, President, Terrorist

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• We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.

  River Phoenix

  Real, Animal, Rights

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

  Grace Kelly

  Ends, Forty

  Interview with William B. Arthur, "Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess" by James Spada, (p. 280), 1988.

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• I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Thinking, Theatre, Sometimes

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• But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

  Shailene Woodley

  Men, Light, Earth

  "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.

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• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  Frances Conroy

  Marriage, Exercise

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• Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Independent, Definitions, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.

  Ann Coulter

  Sports, Thinking, Government

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.266, Crown Forum

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• No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

  Ann Coulter

  Dancing, Politics, Gone

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.71, Crown Forum

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• I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.

  Christopher Lee

  Men, Facts, Bombs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Sports, Would Be, Television

  Playboy interview, November 1994.

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• I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

  Bela Lugosi

  Tears

  "Fictional character: Dr. Richard Vollin". "The Raven", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Mountain

  Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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• Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

  John McCain

  Debate, Bin Laden

  "Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture" by John McCain, www.washingtonpost.com. May 11, 2011.

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

  Amiri Baraka

  Pain, Unseen, Subjects

  Amiri Baraka (2016). “System of Dante's Hell”, p.158, Akashic Books

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• Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

  Arundhati Roy

  Army, America, People

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.

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• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

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• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Heart, Delight

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