Torture Quotes

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.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

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

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

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.

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.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

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?

I don't torture myself.

Chess is mental torture.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

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

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.