Torture Quotes

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!

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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.

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

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.

Marriage is an exercise in 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?

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.

I don't torture myself.

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.

Chess is mental torture.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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