Torture Quotes

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.

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.

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.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

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

I’m not tortured and neurasthenic – I’m really not.