Torture Quotes - Page 24

• What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  People, Communist, Surprising

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• In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

  Osman Baydemir

  War, Talking, Turkeys

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• So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

  Karen Chance

  Believe, High Heels, Modern

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.339, Penguin

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• Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  School, Ideas, Criticism

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• There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Simplicity, Less Is More

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• Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.

  A. P. Herbert

  Lonely, Children, Golf

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• I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on this subject have very much altered since I have been personally exposed to the tortures of hunger. I have discovered, in fact, that a man, whatever may have been his origin, his education, and his habits, is governed, under certain circumstances, much more by his stomach than by his intelligence and his heart.

  Francois Arago

  Heart, Science, Animal

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.36

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• I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again"

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Shoes, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.

  Will Durant

  Beautiful, Believe, Biblical

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• Fancy tortures more people than does reality

  Ouida

  Reality, People, Doe

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• For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Motivation, Intention, Invention

  James Russell Lowell (1856). “Reader! Walk Up at Once (it Will Soon be Too Late) and Buy at a Perfectly Ruinous Rate a Fable for Critics: Or, Better, (I Like, as a Thing that the Reader's First Fancy May Strike, an Old Fashioned Title-page, Such as Presents a Tabular View of the Volume's Contents) a Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies (Mrs. Malaprop's Word) from the Tub of Diogenes; a Vocal and Musical Medley”, p.17

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• God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.

  Joseph Addison

  Opportunity, Flames, Trials

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• Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

  David Lloyd George

  Children, Work, Men

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• The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Speak

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.282

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Suffering, Would Be

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• From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

  Emile Zola

  Feelings, Firsts, May

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• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Writing, Editors

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• There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

  Oscar Romero

  Men, Abuse, Outrage

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• In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiration, Doubt, Enthusiasm

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.

  Aisha Tyler

  Childhood, Painful Moments, Amusement

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• If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.

  Ron Reagan

  Christian, Dog, Jesus

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Memories, Forever, Important

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities.

  Anthony Romero

  Government, Creating, Abuse

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• That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise. Witnessing to the humanity of the other is the place where all moral reasoning must begin.

  Giles Fraser

  Humanity, Fundamentals, Lines

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