Torture Quotes

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.