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Torture Quotes - Page 3

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

"Eduardo Galeano on Writing, “Historical Amnesia” in Latin America & His Fight Against Cancer". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

"Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

"Martin Starr’s Star Turn". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 21, 2012.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

"Fictional character: Dr. Richard Vollin". "The Raven", www.imdb.com. 1935.

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.

St Teresa of Avila (2008). “The Life of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.55, Cosimo, Inc.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

"The People v. The Torture Team: Six Questions for Law & Order’s René Balcer" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. October 5, 2009.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5225, Delphi Classics

...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.141, Simon and Schuster