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  • Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

  • I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long time. What form of punishment would be enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you' you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

  • You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

    Christian   Believe   Men  
  • Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  • In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

    Girl   Simple   Pyramids  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan
  • I was on NPR's All Things Considered yesterday. The question was, 'You're on the torture rack, they're going to kill you, who are you going to vote for? Mitt Romney, or Barack Obama? I said, 'Look, I've climbed Mount Everest. I know how to do what it takes. Take this to the bank: I would rather die.'

    Yesterday   Npr   Looks  
    "Gary Johnson Just Gave the Best Speech of His Presidential Campaign" by Mike Riggs, reason.com. May 5, 2012.
  • When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  • How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

    Father   Thinking   Law  
  • The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This is why a Christian should learn not to let anyone easily create an evil conscience in him. Rather let him say, "This error and this failing pass away with my other imperfections and sins, which I must include in the article of faith: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.

  • There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

    Men   Talking   Ancient  
    Laurence Sterne (1790). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.130
  • ...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

    Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.3562, e-artnow
  • While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

  • But in these few moments that we have here on Earth, are we going to torture ourselves? Or are we going to allow our lights to be dimmed? How do we expect men to respect women or women to rise to more power when we don't respect our queendom in the same way that men respect their kingdom?

    Men   Light   Earth  
    "Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson Are Out to Conquer Hollywood—and Fix It" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.vulture.com. June 1, 2014.
  • 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.

    Hell   Program   Torture  
  • For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

    Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.21, Penguin
  • They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

  • The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

    Pain   Unseen   Torture  
    Amiri Baraka (2016). “System of Dante's Hell”, p.158, Akashic Books
  • The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.
  • Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

    Spiritual   People   Soul  
  • Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

    Party   Men   Prison  
  • In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

  • Four years that the [Barack] Obama Justice Department... There were 100 ostensible cases, allegations. No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, allegations of torture, all this garbage that left was putting out, and the Obama Justice Department took four years considering those cases.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

    Strong   Hate   War  
    Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1940). “And No Man's Wit”
  • Millennials do not know their country at war. They don't see militant Islam as evil. They don't see Islamic terrorism as evil. If they're 30, 911, 2001, they were teenagers, there's been so much propaganda about that. The United States largely has been blamed for these acts of terror, presidents like Bush with their torture have created terrorists and so forth. They've really been given a dose of anti-Americanism, well, I think since they first started going to school but it intensified once they got to high school and college.

    Country   War   Teenager  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

    Army   Dating   Mind  
    James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

    Records   Want   Rooms  
  • The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  • To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

    "David Attenborough: I’m not an animal lover". Interview with Simon Gage, metro.co.uk. January 29, 2013.
  • In China, I witnessed forced abortions and forced sterilizations performed on women who were told that the children they were carrying were 'illegal'. I went with them when they were arrested and remained with them as they were subjected to mind-bending psychological torture. And I accompanied them as they went in tears to the local clinic to have their pregnancies aborted.

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