Quotes About Torture

I'll make a quick exit. A needleful or two of morphine will do it. Best that way: if I allowed myself to live, I would disgorge too much truth. Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practise their bravery. Though they may not have a choice about that, since they lack my privileges.

Oh, torture. Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

The Dead Hand , yeah, it was, like, seminal, but tame by today's standards. Violet, for instance, did not get her intestines ripped out. There wasn't any torture, nobody's liver got fried in a pan, there wasn't any gang rape. So what's the fun of that?

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

Symphony of malice, symphony of madness coming through the walls, philosophy straining to contain the ghastly images, the torture, to surround it with language Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Beethoven's Ninth. I played the torture part. I played the Second Movement.

Era el dolor de nuevo, empezaba a resonar, como si me ensartaran un hilo de fuego, y la bruja que sostenía la aguja tirara con fuerza para hacerme estremecer.

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

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

Does innocence mean not being implicated in wrongdoing such as torture of prisoners or the "collateral damage" to hapless civilians? And is it that the citizens are innocent but not their leaders? If that is the case, isn't the system closer to the dictatorships whose horrendous crimes were attributed solely, or overwhelmingly, to the leadership and not to the followers?

An inversion is present when a system, such as a democracy, produces a number of significant actions ordinarily associated with its antithesis: for example, when the elected chief executive may imprison an accused without due process and sanction the use of torture while instructing the nation about the sanctity of the rule of law.

How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse) I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher)

Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we're going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I'll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus) Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we'll have you tell us things. We're not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine) Oh, thank the Source. I can't stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus)

I should probably warn you that I'm not real big on fairness and I have a below-zero tolerance on most things. Do your job. Do it right and we won't have any problems. Fuck up and I'll most likely kill you. Fuck up bad enough and I'll torture you first. (Thorn)

You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don't die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)

The man doesn't want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn't anger him. I've seen what he can do and it's the stuff horror movies are made of. Body part flailing, blood. Lots of blood and torture. (Berith)

You look like hell. (Sebastian) Yeah, well, it's hard to look good when you're being tortured. (Damos)

You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they're called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You'd be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies. (Berith) Not really. I'd rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing. (Jericho)

Still, it's better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to torture the conscience and flog the heart.

You really don't care for torture, do you? (Medea) No, I don't. It's one thing to strike out in anger, another to cause agony for the hell of it. I'm a soldier, not a coward. (Stryker)

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Colonel Edwin F. Glenn led a team of water cure experts in the Philippines and was court-martialed for violating the 1863 code's prohibition on torture. Twelve years later, he drafted the field manual on the laws of war that American officers would carry into two world wars.

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.

One of the biggest differences between him and his rivals for the Republican nomination was] "every one of them wants to torture people. It's amazing.