Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Torture

Quotes about: Torture

• It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who knows our thoughts, who can convict us of thought crime, thought crime, just for what we think, who can judge us while we sleep for things that might occur to us in our dreams, who can create us sick, as apparently we are - and then order us, on pain of eternal torture to be well again.
  To demand this, to wish this to be true is to wish to live as an abject slave.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Pain, Sleep

• There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Punishment, Ideas

• Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Praying, Torture

• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

• If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doe, Torture, Ifs

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.410, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Doe, Slavery, Tests

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.410, Atlantic Books Ltd

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