Torture Quotes - Page 12

• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• 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.

  Fred Durst

  Art, Careers, People

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• 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.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  Gloria Estefan

  Teenager, Glasses, Hair

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• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Father, House

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• 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.

  Eva Gabor

  Hate, Body, Chickens

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• Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

  Haim Ginott

  Appreciation, Teacher, Teaching

  "Teacher and child". Book by Haim Ginott, 1972.

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• 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.

  William Hague

  Motivational, Block, Rights

  "Nato to take control in Libya after US, UK and France reach agreement" by Nicholas Watt, Nick Hopkins and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

  Ayn Rand

  Accessories, Murder, Victim

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.435, Penguin

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• Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Differences, Feelings

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• Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suffering, Humiliation, You Choose

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Body, May

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• We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Loneliness, Order

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• The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

  George Orwell

  War, Lying, Exercise

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.467, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Hatred, Vices

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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• Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Only cowards torture women.

  Patricia Briggs

  Women, Coward

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.317, Penguin

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

  Charles Dickens

  Circles, Needs, Survivor

  Charles Dickens (2017). “OLIVER TWIST (Illustrated Edition): Including “The Life of Charles Dickens” & Criticism of the Work”, p.245, e-artnow

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• All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Ties, Rope

  Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press

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• Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

  Albert Camus

  Succeed, Steps, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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• Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.

  Dean Koontz

  Vocabulary, Going Away, Trying

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• The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Weekend, Two

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• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Writing, Drug, Tonight

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Dagon”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Guilt, Rosary

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