Torture Quotes - Page 8

• And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Joy, Tears

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

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• It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.

  Penelope Cruz

  Trying, Sometimes, Process

  "Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz". Interview with Maria Delgado, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

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• There are clues in the script... he will say "I think drugs are immoral"'... but the guy who says that kills, tortures, pimps and has whores working for him. There is this strange morality going on, which is rather like the Mafia.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Guy, Drug

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.

  Eli Roth

  Witch Trials, Years, Church

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning.

  Sark

  Agony, Suffering, Way

  Source: www.shift-it-coach.com

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• Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Enemy, World

  "Guantánamo, Six Years Later" by Shayana Kadidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2008.

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• Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Hurt, Rights

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• Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.

  Laura Poitras

  Country, Government, Effort

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them.

  Errol Morris

  Thinking, Facts, Offensive

  "Interrogating Errol Morris". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Believe, Errors

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• Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy becomes the measure of abhorrent acts, all sorts of unspeakable crimes somehow become acceptable. I may have found myself on the wrong side of government on torture. But I'm on the right side of history. There are things we should not do, even in the name of national security. One of them, I now firmly believe, is torture.

  John Kiriakou

  Believe, Names, Government

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• I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime we don't want to force Jesus Christ on anybody and look that we are trying to force our beliefs onto other.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Jesus, Hate, Trying

  Mosab Hassan Yousef's Remarks on Terrorism, Christianity, www.christianpost.com. March 23, 2010.

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• Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, People, Sick

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• There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Mastery

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.81, Routledge

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• There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll never explain it. Because life is a mystery, which means your thinking mind cannot make sense of it. For that you've got to wake up and then you'll suddenly realize that reality is not the problem, you are the problem.

  Anthony de Mello

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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• I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.

  Wesley Clark

  Dream, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're gonna do it". You can't live that way and the United States doesn't need to do it, it shouldn't do it, and I think a Democratic administration, whoever the democratic president is, will repudiate that kind of conduct. I think it was an overreaction caused by a lot of different strains of thought in the administration. I think it was clearly wrong and I think that repudiation, which will come from the United States, will be a key in restoring America's legitimacy.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, America, Keys

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Soul, Spheres

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

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• When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

  Sharon Stone

  Men, Class, Higher

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• You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution? It would be absurd to say you couldn't do that. And once you acknowledge that, we're into a different game.

  Antonin Scalia

  Blow, Self, Games

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• Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere...
  I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

  George W. Bush

  Law, Government, Community

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• A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Heart, Men

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• Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

  George W. Bush

  Crush, Determination, Rogues

  "Ivins: Beyond the pale" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2006.

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• I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Mean, Cutting

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• Let us ban together to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and le us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods! And even if we don't convince anybody, at least we'll have the satisfaction of drawing down on ourselves the punishment for out own deceit.

  Eusebius

  Drawing, Punishment, Miracle

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