149 Torture Quotes for You to Enjoy

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that. David S. Goyer

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In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not justify torture. The United States must be held to a higher standard than our enemies, yet some of our actions did not clear that bar. Dianne Feinstein

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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. Eduardo Galeano

Fear Torture Purpose Spreading Getting Information

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy

Management Torture Saddam New Learn Now Chambers

I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one. Elizabeth Holmes

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To be consistent with this discourse of lifting up the military dictatorship in Brazil, the dictatorship that extended from 1964 to 1985, Bolsonaro, his whole life, has been uplifting not only the dictatorship itself but also the methods that the dictatorship used to stay in power, including torture. Fernando Haddad

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Marriage is an exercise in torture. Frances Conroy

Marriage Torture Exercise

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Francis Bacon

Worse Must Torture Laws Beware Judges Than Inference Strained Hard

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. Fred Durst

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Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest. Gail Simone

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Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. Gavin Newsom

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I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. George A. Romero

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Anyone will say anything under torture. George Galloway

Will Say Torture Anyone Anything

I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture. Giles Deacon

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. Grace Kelly

Woman Torture End Forty

One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy. Harold Pinter

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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. Iain Banks

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What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. Jean-Marie Le Pen

People Torture Surprising Against Communists Who Fought Here

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. Jean-Marie Le Pen

Suffering Torture Terrorists Real Caused

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

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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported. Jemima Khan

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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something. Jess Walter

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