284 Quotes About Torture

To refuse to claim your privacy is actually to cede it, either to state trespassing its constitutional restraints or to a "private" business.

Being humiliated only makes it easier to restrain you. And being restrained makes it possible to torture you, for the unrestrained cannot be tortured; the unrestrained can only be fought. So to be restrained is to be unable to fight, and to be humiliated is to be readied for torture. To know you have been readied for torture is to await torture. And to await torture is, itself, torture.

We should torture language to tell the truth.

Mind control that uses torture turns the situations around and makes relief of pain, a reward. If a person is hurting you physically in an extreme and painful way, they say to you, "The pain will stop if you do what I tell you," which works to establish the type of disciplined response.

Life is hard. What an understatement. Hard is too mild for the trouble we've seen. Life is hell shot with just enough heaven to make the pains of hope all the sharper. Life is impossible. Ugly. Agonizing. Inexplicable. Torture.

Her body was tortured with something it could not let out.

Inescapable shock research continues to the present day. Although I am not a PETA person, I think it bears mentioning (again) that other species do not deliberately inflict uncontrollable, inescapable pain. Only humans do this — in the psych lab, in abusive families, in prisons, and in the extreme sadism of sexual psychopaths. Deliberate cruelty and the instrumental use of others is the sole province of homo sapiens.

La oss glede oss over pinslene som er like mange betalte gjeldsposter, og la oss tro at det er av barmhjertighet vi ikke får vite de opprinnelige årsakene til våre kvaler.

He reached through a slit in his robe into a pouch strapped to his ample abdomen. From it he withdrew a small wineskin."Here," he said, pushing it between the bars. "For strength. For courage."Adelard pulled the stopper and drank greedily."They don't feed me and give me very little water."How does it feel? Ramiro thought. How many have you treated the same to make them weak and more easily persuaded by your tortures?