(132 quotes found)
“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”
Gregg Easterbrook
“The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.”
Countee Cullen
“I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well”
Catullus
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”
Thomas Merton
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
