Quotes about Torture

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. Votes: 7

Love is a reciprocal torture. Votes: 6

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Votes: 6

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Votes: 6

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. Votes: 6

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. Votes: 6

The healthy man does not torture others. Votes: 4

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. Votes: 4

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Votes: 4

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances. Votes: 4

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Votes: 4

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. Votes: 4

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again. Votes: 4

Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. Votes: 4

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity Votes: 4

I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized. Votes: 4

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture. Votes: 4

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most. Votes: 4

This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world. Votes: 4

Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated with US government support. The linkage is not accidental; rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough. Client fascism often improves the business climate for American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor in foreign policy. Votes: 4

Torture doesn't work. Votes: 3

Torture can be a two edged sword. Votes: 3

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. Votes: 3

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray. Votes: 3

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy. Votes: 3

Don't tell me it doesn't work. Torture works. Okay, folks? Votes: 3

Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief. Votes: 3

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. Votes: 3

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them. Votes: 3

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free. Votes: 3

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. Votes: 3

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. Votes: 3

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. Votes: 3

I Will Follow Anyone And Tell EveryoneHow They AbductAnd Torture ChildrenIn the Name Of Religion Votes: 3

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. Votes: 3

I Will Follow Anyone And Tell EveryoneHow They Abduct...And Torture ChildrenIn the Name Of Religion Votes: 3

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. Votes: 3

Ronnie had it right calling it Torture. That is a much more accurate description the way I see it. Votes: 3

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. Votes: 3

She said love her or be tortured by her. I replied, "Torture would be less painful." She didn't realize that I'm a true romantic. Votes: 3

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' Votes: 3

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration. Votes: 3

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea. Votes: 3

Child labor, not a problem. Censorship, not a problem. Torture, not a problem. Chewing gum in China - oh, my God! You better not be over here chewing gum. Votes: 3

The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world. Votes: 3

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral. Votes: 3

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing. Votes: 3

In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers. Votes: 3

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it. Votes: 3

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable to? Votes: 3

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. Votes: 2

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Votes: 2

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. Votes: 2

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. Votes: 2

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end. Votes: 2

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation. Votes: 2

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. Votes: 2

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Votes: 2

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people. Votes: 2

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. For two hours, Christians watch their Savior tortured and killed. For the same two hours, Jews watch Jews arrange the killing and torture of the Christians' Savior. Votes: 2

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch. Votes: 2

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible. Votes: 2

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. Votes: 2

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. Votes: 2

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights. Votes: 2

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I don't torture myself. Votes: 0

Chess is mental torture. Votes: 0

Only cowards torture women. Votes: 0

Silence, too, can be torture. Votes: 0

Point shoes are torture devices. Votes: 0

People love that monkey torture. Votes: 0

Don't torture yourself... that's my job Votes: 0

Anyone will say anything under torture. Votes: 0

Hell has no benefits, only torture. Votes: 0

The United States does not torture. Votes: 0

Marriage is an exercise in torture. Votes: 0

Death is one , torture is multiple. Votes: 0

Now it is nothing but torture. Votes: 0

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Votes: 0

...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist. Votes: 0

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Votes: 0

Not knowing is another form of torture. Votes: 0

Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture. Votes: 0

Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature. Votes: 0

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles. Votes: 0

Sorry. I'm not, like, medieval torture expert guy. Votes: 0

Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy Votes: 0

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. Votes: 0

Bin Laden's death and the debate over torture Votes: 0

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture. Votes: 0

Fine art is the only teacher except torture. Votes: 0

For a woman, forty is torture, the end. Votes: 0

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves. Votes: 0

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery. Votes: 0

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself. Votes: 0

To me, torture would be watching sports on television. Votes: 0

One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session. Votes: 0

There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake. Votes: 0

There's no business that's too small for government to torture Votes: 0

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. Votes: 0

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake. Votes: 0

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. Votes: 0

You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily. Votes: 0

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. Votes: 0

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. Votes: 0

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason. Votes: 0

I prefer love songs to any other form of torture. Votes: 0

Many times I see you as a portrait of torture. Votes: 0

When you go card dead its torture just sitting there. Votes: 0

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing. Votes: 0

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture. Votes: 0

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth Votes: 0

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation. Votes: 0

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you Votes: 0

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on. Votes: 0

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area. Votes: 0

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people. Votes: 0

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.. Votes: 0

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible. Votes: 0

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. Votes: 0

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. Votes: 0

Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. Votes: 0

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone. Votes: 0

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. Votes: 0

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor Votes: 0

That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it. Votes: 0

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture. Votes: 0

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture. Votes: 0

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time. Votes: 0

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture. Votes: 0

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief. Votes: 0

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time Votes: 0

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies. Votes: 0

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die. Votes: 0

Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. Votes: 0

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with. Votes: 0

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. Votes: 0

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. Votes: 0

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. Votes: 0

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way. Votes: 0

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. Votes: 0

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Votes: 0

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. Votes: 0

How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. Votes: 0

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart. Votes: 0

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Votes: 0

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think. Votes: 0

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. Votes: 0

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture. Votes: 0

What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. Votes: 0

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. Votes: 0

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. Votes: 0

Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it. Votes: 0

I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one. Votes: 0

I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you! Votes: 0

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. Votes: 0

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. Votes: 0

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before. Votes: 0

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. Votes: 0

Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture. Votes: 0

Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers. Votes: 0

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. Votes: 0

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Votes: 0

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass. Votes: 0

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. Votes: 0

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Votes: 0

Garan snorted. "Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake. Votes: 0

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense. Votes: 0

You can't pray away the gay, but you can torture a conflicted closet-case to death. Votes: 0

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. Votes: 0

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. Votes: 0

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. Votes: 0

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. Votes: 0

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men. Votes: 0

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. Votes: 0

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. Votes: 0

Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt. Votes: 0

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him? Votes: 0

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal. Votes: 0

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. Votes: 0

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. Votes: 0

If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue. Votes: 0

To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death. Votes: 0

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll..." Votes: 0

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. Votes: 0

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long. Votes: 0

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call. Votes: 0

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... Votes: 0

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll... Votes: 0

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. Votes: 0

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. Votes: 0

It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent. Votes: 0

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture! Votes: 0

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! Votes: 0

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. Votes: 0

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. Votes: 0

Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! Votes: 0

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. Votes: 0

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture. Votes: 0

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence Votes: 0

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. Votes: 0

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. Votes: 0

They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us. Votes: 0

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. Votes: 0

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture. Votes: 0

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. Votes: 0

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. Votes: 0

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Votes: 0

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. Votes: 0

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Votes: 0

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. Votes: 0

It's a torture chamber, if we had to play it every day I don't think I'd be playing golf. Votes: 0

There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them. Votes: 0

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. Votes: 0

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don't need to do squats in the first place Votes: 0

My life was dark, torture and empty before you found me. You brought the light, Red. I love you. Votes: 0

I spend all my time trying to capture the moment. And when I do, I'll interrogate and torture it. Votes: 0

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train. Votes: 0

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. Votes: 0

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know? Votes: 0

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims. Votes: 0

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. Votes: 0

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate. Votes: 0

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates. Votes: 0

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture. Votes: 0

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE... Votes: 0

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it. Votes: 0

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence. Votes: 0

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. Votes: 0

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight. Votes: 0

Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection. Votes: 0

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. Votes: 0

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. Votes: 0

Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. Votes: 0

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell. Votes: 0

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution. Votes: 0

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. Votes: 0

I escaped the torture of my childhood home by reading. To this day it is still one of my greatest pleasures. Votes: 0

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack. Votes: 0

President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.' Votes: 0

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. Votes: 0

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. Votes: 0

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true. Votes: 0

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. Votes: 0

Christians often threaten atheists with eternal torture. But if we say that they're delusional, they will tell us that we're being rude. Votes: 0

I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture! Votes: 0

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness Votes: 0

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience. Votes: 0

It is the policy of the United States not to engage in torture, and there are federal criminal laws that prohibit torture. Votes: 0

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. Votes: 0

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings. Votes: 0

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it. Votes: 0

I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture! Votes: 0

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device. Votes: 0

I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha! Votes: 0

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. Votes: 0

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride! Votes: 0

The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences. Votes: 0

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty? Votes: 0

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels. Votes: 0

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England Votes: 0

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. Votes: 0

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. Votes: 0

I don't care about probabilities. If something were one-in-a-million, I would wonder if the one had found me. It's the uncertainty that's torture. Votes: 0

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. Votes: 0

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy. Votes: 0

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death. Votes: 0

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. Votes: 0

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. Votes: 0

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government. Votes: 0

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture. Votes: 0

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives. Votes: 0

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. Votes: 0

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why? Votes: 0

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it. Votes: 0

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture. Votes: 0

A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity Votes: 0

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too! Votes: 0

Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety. Votes: 0

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. Votes: 0

How is it that standing outside for a minute in 90 degree heat is torture, yet standing in a blistering hot shower for 20 minutes is paradise?" Votes: 0

I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture. Votes: 0

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Votes: 0

Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean? Votes: 0

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him. Votes: 0

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another? Votes: 0

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. Votes: 0

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than murder... Votes: 0

Just saw a t-shirt at the gym said, body by torture. That's a lot less ironic if you're a political prisoner in the Middle East. Votes: 0

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good) Votes: 0

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone. Votes: 0

So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it. Votes: 0

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. Votes: 0

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette. Votes: 0

[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated. Votes: 0

John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison camps took torture to avoid saying. Votes: 0

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. Votes: 0

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country. Votes: 0

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh. Votes: 0

There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands. Votes: 0

Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows. Votes: 0

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber. Votes: 0

We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat. Votes: 0

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans. Votes: 0

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy. Votes: 0

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method. Votes: 0

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. Votes: 0

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets. Votes: 0

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. Votes: 0

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it. Votes: 0

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted. Votes: 0

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules. Votes: 0

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling. Votes: 0

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror. Votes: 0

The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. Votes: 0

As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied. Votes: 0

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. Votes: 0

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Votes: 0

I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture. Votes: 0

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do. Votes: 0

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions. Votes: 0

That's a weird way to torture yourself. Just watch a movie, over and over, that you hate. That's really funny - that's probably exactly what hell is like. Votes: 0

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop! Votes: 0

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. Votes: 0

If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture. Votes: 0

The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people. Votes: 0

Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals. Votes: 0

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. Votes: 0

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques. Votes: 0

The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental. Votes: 0

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified. Votes: 0

It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture. Votes: 0

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people. Votes: 0

I just don't believe in helping people who are going to torture me. Though I don't see any bamboo slivers. How can you possibly torture someone without bamboo slivers? Votes: 0

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion. Votes: 0

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. Votes: 0

If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off. Votes: 0

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a triple whammy of surreal, absolute madness. Votes: 0

There is something about the photographs that is endlessly disturbing. The fact that we like to think of them as torture actually hides what is really deeply offensive about them. Votes: 0

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it. Votes: 0

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime Votes: 0

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule, Votes: 0

We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! Votes: 0

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture. Votes: 0

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press. Votes: 0

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal. Votes: 0

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture. Votes: 0

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other. Votes: 0

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive. Votes: 0

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict. Votes: 0

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture. Votes: 0

IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen. Votes: 0

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished. Votes: 0

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal. Votes: 0

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11. Votes: 0

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature. Votes: 0

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No! Votes: 0

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. Votes: 0

I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo. Votes: 0

Hate is self-inflicted torture. It hungers for revenge, damage, division, and violence, but is never satiated. Hate is a psychological hell to which we condemn ourselves and endeavor to burn others. Votes: 0

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known. Votes: 0

Nothing says you care for me better than offering to torture my enemies." He grinned. "No sense doing things halfhearted. And to think, some girls have to endure listening to poetry. Votes: 0

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. Votes: 0

We're all afraid of suffering or agony or torture. It's only natural in some ways. It's only human, let's say. I don't know how natural it is. It probably is conditioning. Votes: 0

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. Votes: 0

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me. Votes: 0

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. Votes: 0

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. Votes: 0

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought. Votes: 0

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. Votes: 0

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan. Votes: 0

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. Votes: 0

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel. Votes: 0

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. Votes: 0

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them. Votes: 0

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture. Votes: 0

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth. Votes: 0

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year. Votes: 0

My hobbies include rubbing my nipples across a cheese grater, meeting cat ladies on Tinder, and voting for either Democrat or Republican every four years. You could say I am a torture enthusiast. Votes: 0

Life's always sweeter behind River Nile! Cross it; forget the days of the bitter Bile! Leave the torture behind and give a Smile! Keep smiling; Don't just do it just for a While! Votes: 0

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely. Votes: 0

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture. Votes: 0

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow. Votes: 0

[Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States international law when it comes to torture. Votes: 0

We continue to see undeniable evidence that abuse and torture has been widespread and systematic, yet high-level government officials have not been held accountable for creating the policies that led to these atrocities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Votes: 0

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it. Votes: 0

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax. Votes: 0

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people. Votes: 0

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates. Votes: 0

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world. Votes: 0

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures. Votes: 0

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE. Votes: 0

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs. Votes: 0

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Votes: 0

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction. Votes: 0

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture. Votes: 0

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. Votes: 0

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture. Votes: 0

Telling someone who is manic that she's manic is like telling a dictator that he's a dick. Neither is going to admit it, and both are willing to torture you to prove their points. Votes: 0

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill. Votes: 0

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. Votes: 0

I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. Votes: 0

Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew! Votes: 0

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy Votes: 0

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything. Votes: 0

People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money. Votes: 0

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. Votes: 0

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture. Votes: 0

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. Votes: 0

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict. Votes: 0

Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. Votes: 0

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter. Votes: 0

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand. Votes: 0