Quotes about Torture

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I know mine own! — A.R. Braun, Autonomy
A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a — Felicity De Zulueta, From Pain to Violence: The Traumatic Roots of Destructiveness
I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-mov — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity. — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal tort — Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
You can't have occupation and human rights. — Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have. — Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries
During the persecutions under the Emperor Domitian, John was summoned to Rome, where he was tortured by immersion in a p — Gilles Quispel, The Secret Book of Revelation: The Apocalypse of St John the Divine
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
Marriage is an exercise in torture. — Frances Conroy