Torture Quotes

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Mahatma Gandhi
Me You Mind Will Destroy Torture Never Body Chain Even
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Jane Goodall
Time Good You Garden Plants Crime Few Sense Down Our Spend Torture Some Rate Area Recover Outside Studies Development Suppose Understands Proven Been Begin Green Goes Quite Anybody Psychological Which Victims Them Really Deep Flowers Need
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change. Paolo Nutini
You Change Racism Worst Torture Something Directed Never Because Forms Asked
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Friedrich Nietzsche
Will Power Pain Torture Advantage Knows How How Much Endures Turn Much Assess Resistance
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. James Anthony Froude
Death Man Animals Wild Wild Animals Torture Only Never Fellow Sport Fellow Creatures His Itself Whom Creatures Amusing
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. Dave Grohl
You Cancer Will Guilt Black Thief Destroy Torture Wall Artist Confine
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
Freedom Rights People Law Mind Will Own Human Rights Increasingly Find Torture Corrupt Steal Bear Freedom Of Expression Reach Judgement Block Oppress Governments Deny Escape Human Where Should Aspirations Hard International International Law Expression
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Charles Bukowski
Love Torture Betrayal Generally Feels Female His Male Bravado Skilled Exploration Loyal Who
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Edward Everett Hale
Man Survival Doctors Torture Invented Hypocrites Name Most Known Form Ever Exquisite Medical
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. Greg Boyle
Political Poverty Other Our Border Thousands Torture Abject Deterrent Instability Push Abuse Force Equals Conditions Migration Across Imaginable
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. Barack Obama
Today Struggle People Win Own Our Intimidate Those Moral Must Would Moral Compass Torture Direction Pointed True Freedoms Global Most Deadly Exercising Spread Engaged Who Keep Compass Basic
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 Single Defense Thousands Torture Individual He Feeble Bound Make Single Individual Brave Brave Men Cannot Even Resistance Gather
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. John McCain
Will Believe Think Torture Misleading Know Offer Intentionally Information Victims
I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever. Bobby Sands
Broken Man People Will Logic Torture One-Man Spirit Never Am Amazed Nor Refused Eight After Breaking Succeeded Centuries Who Even Conquered Ever British
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Emil Cioran
Paradise Torture Insomnia Itself Place Convert
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. Katharine Lee Bates
Death History Heroes Torture Give Martyrs Divine Gladly Idea Surely Truest Up Irrespective Which Bodies Special Phase
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. Charles Krauthammer
Life Time You Innocent Evil First Possesses Circumstances Bad Easy Torture Bad Guy Case Guy Except Could He Ticking Time Bomb Refuses Information Stake Choice Captured Bomb Two Save
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. James Joyce
Writing Reading Torture Previous Most Sins Committed Public Explains Ingenious Reason English Why Ever Lives
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice. Alan Dershowitz
Justice Accountability Enormous President Resort Ought Approval States Torture Case Openly Supreme Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Court Done Going United Lives United States Last Numbers Save
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
Work Day Every Day Hate Every Torture Sheer Go Up Chickens Body
Chess is mental torture. Garry Kasparov
Torture Mental Chess
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen
Science Animals Politicians Torture Journalists Make Inexcusable Scientists Experiments Them
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. James Bovard
Judge Enemy Somebody Example Evidence Locked Locked Up Scandal Administration Torture Having Stuff Like Another Tiger Perpetuity Up Any Bush Bush Administration Produce Show Avoid Fought Why
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. Luther Burbank
People World Think Thinking Torture Per Most Greatest Subject Than Any Cent Fifteen Less Original
Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime. Peter Maurer
Humanity Humiliating Other Torture Physical Scars Lifetime Cruel Affront Psychological Forms Last Treatment
You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million. Robert Green Ingersoll
You Change Will Tell Torture Hypocrites Make Conclusion Nor Brain Done Cannot Social Million Ostracism
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