Top 37 Torturer Quotes
#1. Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#2. the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself.
Elie Wiesel
#3. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
Ayn Rand
#4. The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach.
Chris Wooding
#5. Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
Noam Chomsky
#8. The tongueless torturer and the flower of chivalry. An unlikely alliance.
Joe Abercrombie
#9. A central part of the torturer's craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.
Jonathan Glover
#10. He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer. However,
Lindsey Davis
#11. I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
Isabel Allende
#12. There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
Angela Carter
#13. The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
Michael Jackson
#14. Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.
Haruki Murakami
#16. Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
Laurie Anderson
#18. High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
Walter Scott
#19. Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.
Roger Waters
#20. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise.
Stephen Fry
#21. Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics ...
Steve Roper
#22. It's a pity you are a torturer," Ultan said. "You might have been a philosopher.
Gene Wolfe
#23. As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Tony Kushner
#24. She was a woman and any exchange of words with a woman was fraught with her torturer's array of deadly implements, each one hovering at the very edge of a man's comprehension.
Steven Erikson
#25. 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.
James Risen
#26. Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.
Robert Smythe Hichens
#27. What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
Storm Jameson
#28. He was less than the dirt beneath those princess shoes. He'd always known it and still ... his c*ck turned to steel thinking of the smile she sent him. She was a torturer in a tiara.
V. Theia
#29. The reason crucifixion was so common is because it was so cheap. It could be carried out almost anywhere; all one needed was a tree. The torture could last for days without the need for an actual torturer.
Reza Aslan
#30. I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
Naveen Andrews
#31. It still seems a strange decision, though, for the tortured to turn torturer."
"On the contrary, nothing could be more natural. In my experience, people do as they are done to. You were sold by your father and bought by your husband, and yet you choose to buy and sell.
Joe Abercrombie
#32. Suddenly the black torturer laid down the pipes and rose, towering over the writhing white figure.
Robert E. Howard
#33. It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Gore Vidal
#34. Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
Alan Moore
#35. There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer
James Clavell
#36. I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behavior. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.
Carrie Fisher
#37. They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.
Donald G. Firesmith
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