Torture Quotes - Page 4

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

George W. Bush legalized torture, but Obama is legalizing impunity. He promised to roll stuff back, but he is institutionalizing these things forever. It is terrifying and the left doesn't seem to recognize it.

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

Silence, too, can be torture.

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture.

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

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

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

When the dominant media invites the torturers on their programs to defend the nature of torture and then label that as "just another position," these media apparatuses have really sunken into hell. They've become something really vile and despicable. And yet they do it with a smile.

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.