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Torture Quotes

Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 21. Victor, who used dead bodies to create new life, wonders what he is made of. He seems to be identifying with his monster creation.

So America, we proclaim as we memorialize George Floyd: Do not cooperate with evil. Join the young people in the streets protesting against the evil, the inhumane, the torture that they witnessed on that video.

– Benjamin Crump

Torture has never been a reliable means of extracting information.

– Capt. Jean-Luc Picard

Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘Chain of Command, Part 2’.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. O’Brien to Winston, making it lear that the regime holds on to power for its own sake, and for no high purpose.

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

– Gary L. Francione

It’s part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

– Harrison Ford

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

– Henry Miller

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

– Henrik Ibsen

Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.

– Gregg Easterbrook

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

– John Henry Newman

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

– Joey Lauren Adams

I’ve been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it’s torture.

– Jesse Ventura

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

– Alfred Adler

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

– Alan Dershowitz

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

– Emil Cioran

Anyone will say anything under torture.

– George Galloway

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

– D. H. Lawrence

Chess is mental torture.

– Garry Kasparov

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.

– Mark Shand

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

– Frances Conroy

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.

– Noam Chomsky

To a lot of us, literature’s eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing – like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

– Darin Strauss

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

– Marty Meehan

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

– Francis Bacon

Airports and ‘leg room’ on planes are a form of medieval torture.

– Mary E. Pearson

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

– Pope Francis

I’m very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

– Melissa Sagemiller

After 10 years of French torture – psychological torture – it’s great to do an American movie.

– Emmanuelle Beart

Even if torture works, what is the point of ‘defending’ America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?

– Phil Klay

No conditions justify torture.

– Norman Finkelstein

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