Torture Quotes - Page 23

• The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Taken, Class

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• 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.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Military, Fall

  Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.44

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• What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?

  John Updike

  Sex, Health, Order

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.230, Random House

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• Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Anger, Punishment

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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Heroism, Mouths

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

  Heraclitus

  Cutting, Doctors, Sick

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• In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sports, Rich

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

  Alan K. Simpson

  Inspirational, Long, Statistics

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• When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

  Rod Stewart

  Sadness, Mean, Love Is

  Song: My Heart Can't Tell Me No

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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!

  Agnes Smedley

  Love You, Living Right, Awful

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• Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Two, Sound, Hearing

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Light, Order

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Spirit, Calming, Vain

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• This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

  John Yoo

  Law, Criminals, Conventions

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• An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Thinking, Actresses, Television

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• To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cutting, Guy, House

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Blood, Want, Violence

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Heart, Joy

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• I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

  James McGreevey

  Believe, Sake, Greater Good

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.

  Raquel Zimmermann

  Hate, Ideas, Corsets

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• I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kids, Thinking, Made Up Stories

  "These Writing Tips From George R.R. Martin And Robin Hobb Are Just Epic" by Dan Dalton, www.buzzfeed.com. August 20, 2014.

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• A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.'

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Love You, Sides

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• The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Real, Suffering, Terrorist

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