Top Torture Quotes
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem
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
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
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
Henry Miller 
Lajos Kossuth 
Jon Bon Jovi 
Matt Groening 
Joe Moore 
Luis Bunuel 
Marcel Proust 
Stanislaw Lem All Torture Quotes
I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.
Howard Coble 
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa
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What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
Zane Grey
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Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
Imogen Cunningham
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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
Abraham Pais
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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
Doug Coupland
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Popular Torture Authors
Friedrich NietzscheMohandas GandhiDoug CouplandFrancis BaconBertrand RussellDavid Herbert LawrenceBarack ObamaHenry MillerCameron DiazCarl JungMarcel ProustThomas A. EdisonRush LimbaughJack KevorkianJames Joyce
Matt GroeningNathaniel HawthorneGeorge WeinbergAlfred AdlerOriana FallaciPeter SingerCharles Horton CooleyHenrik IbsenLajos KossuthImogen CunninghamAndrew GreeleyJohn Henry NewmanZane GreyJames BovardEd Markey
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