Quotes about Torture

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Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will — Nick Flynn, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful tru — Criss Jami
Power is not a means — it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution
Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, ev — Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we e — Mike Norton
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he ca — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris, Chocolat
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forcing her to stare at — Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who h — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse. — Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
People have gotten used to living a botched-up life — to be anxious, insecure, hateful, jealous, and in various states o — Sadhguru, Life and Death in One Breath
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible. — Don Roff
When I was in my single digits, I was subjected to the worst torture you can possibly inflict on a child: Catholic mass. — Tyler Oakley, Binge
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to h — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer — George Bernard Shaw
Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it. — Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns