Tortures Quotes

You should resort to an impartial, international body and not a body 'that kills thousands people on the streets and tortures them ...The Interior Ministry'. - Saddam Hussein

You have someone who the United States has decided is no longer an enemy combatant and is not dangerous, and we sent him back to a country that regularly puts people in secret detention and tortures them. - Barbara Olshansky

We are keeping our fight on ... fight for flawless democracy, justice and end to tortures of political rivals. - Suranjit Sengupta

Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast. - Juvenal

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! - Denis Diderot

There were many tortures, every day. - David Faber

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow. - John Strachan

The soldier who tortures can now simply state that he or she was following orders. - Jennifer Harbury

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. - John Updike