Torture Quotes - Page 38

• Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

  Dan Brown

  Sunday, Blood, Feet

  "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Robert Langdon, Ch. 6), 2009.

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• It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

  Anthony Burgess

  Serious, Madness, Said

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.

  Margaret Atwood

  Crush, Stars, Revenge

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.423, Anchor

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• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Children, War

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• You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Turkeys

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• My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

  Livia Bitton-Jackson

  Loyalty, Perseverance, Giving Up

  Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.

  Naomi Klein

  Religious, Numbers, Ecosystems

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.156, Macmillan

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• Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

  John Fugelsang

  Military, War, Gun

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• The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Good Life, Rejection

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.180, Penguin

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• Follow the voice of your heart, even if it leads you off the path of timid souls. Do not become hard and embittered, even if life tortures you at times. There is only one thing that counts: to live one's life well and happily.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Life, Heart, Voice

  "Listen, Little Man!". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1948.

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• Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Forever, Littles

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• The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Strong, Men

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• The problem, of course, lies with the realities concealed from us. This has always been the case. While the American public has slowly grappled with ongoing injustices visible within our own borders, it has long failed to discover and correct our government's abuses abroad. In the end, however, this is our government, and torture is being utilized in our names and supported by our tax dollars. We are responsible.

  Jennifer Harbury

  Lying, Reality, Government

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• One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Animal, Welfare

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere.

  Ray Anderson

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

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• My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

  Oscar Arias

  Country, Teacher, Children

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• If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Teacher, Writing, Want

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

  Tryon Edwards

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.717, Ravenio Books

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• Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Children, Hate

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.184, Pickle Partners Publishing

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