Torture Quotes

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

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

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

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

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

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.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

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.

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?