There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake.
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections.
It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.
I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece. " This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist. " It doesn't seem to describe what I do.
To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.
Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you have to torture people in order to protect national security is a false argument, and I reject it.
I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.
Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature.
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.
I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.
In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
One man's magic is another man's gluey torture session.
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
We had about seven real cats at any one time on the set, and two animatronic, (one that sits and one that lays down) and two stuffed animal type cats that we used for rehearsals or any sort of silly torture we had to instill on the poor guy.
Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!
Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.