Torture Quotes - Page 11

• When we hear a candidate for president call for rounding up 12 million immigrants, banning all Muslims from entering the United States, when he embraces torture, that doesn't make him strong, it makes him wrong.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, President, Embrace

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I spent four years in the Marine Corp, and a big part of the Marine Corp, especially in boot camp, is torture. The military is not going to like me saying that, but that's what it is. Boot camp is one of the most torturous things I've ever been through.

  Travis Aaron Wade

  Military, Marine

  Source: collider.com

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• The violence at the end is about personal torture.

  Shane Meadows

  Violence

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college, I was trying to earn some extra money by making motel paintings and it was the hardest work I've ever done in my life, psychically. It was just torture.

  Michael C. McMillen

  College, Trying, Done

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain.

  Lawrence Joseph

  War, Imagination, Racism

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If you stay home with the candlelight and you read a book, Rilke, or whatever, or Sigmund Freud, it's boring. But if you watch Udo Kier in a horror film and people are hunting me and trying to kill me, and there's my love interest with big breasts and beautiful hair, and I believe in her and they kill me at the end, that's more interesting. We're talking about films here. We're not talking about writing stories.

  Udo Kier

  Beautiful, Believe, Book

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Trying, Surprise, Cartoonist

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Effort, World, Moral

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Priorities, Understanding, Moral

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are many agreements across the so-called "world religions," at a certain level of abstraction. But when it comes to applying them in concrete situations they may lead to incompatible decisions. As an example, some people think that Christian ideas of sexual modesty suggest that homosexuals should be locked up, some people think that they mean that the churches should recongize gay marriages. But everyone believes in sexual modesty. I think there are universal moral truths, whether or not everyone accepts them. Here's one very low level but important one: it's very bad to torture people.

  Kwame Anthony Appiah

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

  Unknown

  Teacher, Teaching, Father Son

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• The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match." They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Football, Nice, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When the dominant media invites the torturers on their programs to defend the nature of torture and then label that as "just another position," these media apparatuses have really sunken into hell. They've become something really vile and despicable. And yet they do it with a smile.

  Henry Giroux

  Hell, Program

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• I wrote a cheesy love song - called "Tender Torture". I guess it's more of a song about being away from someone that you love. It's pretty strange. It's sincere, I guess. It's actually something that I really felt.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Cheesy, Strange

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• To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Believe, Worms

  "David Attenborough: I’m not an animal lover". Interview with Simon Gage, metro.co.uk. January 29, 2013.

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• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  Walter Bagehot

  Teacher, Fear, Teaching

  Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Years, Psychological, American Movie

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

  Bob Beauprez

  Lying, People, Promise

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• Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

  Luther Burbank

  Thinking, People, World

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Mind, Action

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• A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

  John Cusack

  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

  "A War on Terror by Any Other Name" by John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Numbers, Justice, Accountability

  "Dershowitz: Torture could be justified". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2003.

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

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Would Be, Requirements

  Alan M. Dershowitz (2008). “Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge”, Yale University Press

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

  Cameron Diaz

  Records, Want, Rooms

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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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