Torture Quotes - Page 32

• The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

  Bertrand Russell

  Honesty, Pain, Integrity

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• Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: “Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid! We are together!” They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Rights, Hands, Iran

  "I Must Go Home to Iran Again" by Marjane Satrapi, www.nytimes.com. July 3, 2009.

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• I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

  Gene Simmons

  Ideas, Masters, Crave

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• I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Peter Singer

  Book, Thinking, Possibility

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• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  John Updike

  Education, Children, Father

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

  Jesse Ventura

  Water, Speak

  "Jesse Ventura Challenges Hannity On Waterboarding: “I’ll Get Him To Say Obama Is The Greatest President” By Marcus Baram, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2009.

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• People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

  Sofia Vergara

  Kids, People, Married

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

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, Lynching, Bravery

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• I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

  Paul Wellstone

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

  Paul Wellstone

  Teacher, Teaching, Commitment

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• Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of "experiments" banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.

  Robert Winston

  Pain, Humility, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

  Philip Wylie

  Teacher, Appreciation, Citizens

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• I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

  Julian Baggini

  Glasses, Broken, Ethics

  "Never saying never to torture" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.

  Derek Landy

  Fate, Monsters, World

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• Many times I see you as a portrait of torture.

  Ira Glass

  Portraits

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• Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

  Marisha Pessl

  Phones, World, Phone Calls

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.327, Penguin

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• Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

  Don Roff

  Writing, Surprise, Audience

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

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• Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

  Billy Collins

  Wall, Mean, Names

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

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• Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Goal, Joy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.711, Hamilton Books

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• But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

  Ayn Rand

  Years, Joy, May

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.36, Penguin

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• I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

  Lord Byron

  Climbing, Cities, Feelings

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 3, st. 72

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• A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

  John Steinbeck

  Love Is, Men, Self

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.86, Penguin

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• How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

  Thomas Hardy

  Destiny, Heaven, Done

  Thomas Hardy (2006). “Return of the Native: Easyread Edition”, p.174, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Simple, Pyramids

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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