T Quotes
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“Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.”
“Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.”
“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.”
Source: God's Daughter
“Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.”
“Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.”
“Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.”
“Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.”
“Torture is like dancing: I’m too old for it.”
“Torture is like dancing: I’m too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.”
Source: The Testaments
“Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.”
“Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.”
“Torture is something that happens between two people, the torturer and the victim. The victim is made to taste death without actually dying. He is subjected to atrocious pain and begs his torturer to kill him. He's even ready to forgive the torturer as long as he kills him.”
“Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.”
“Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“torture is useful for when you don't particularly care about the quality of information you're getting, but that's about it”
Source: Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
“Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.”
“Torture never illuminates, only annihilates.”
Source: Monstress, Volume 9: The Possessed
“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”
“Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.”
“Torture?” she asked with a laugh. “My first piece of information I’ll divulge to you? I wouldn’t recommend trying to torture me. I dislike it and grow sulky under pincers. It’s a fault.”
Source: The Warlord Wants Forever
“Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.”
“Torture was meant for dungeons and stone cells. The quiet of Essam. For the trees that watched you bleed and the silent earth you soaked in your tears.”
Source: The Jasad Heir
“Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.”
Source: Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc
“Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.”
“Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.”
Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.”
“Tortured for the Republic.”
“Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks.”
“Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Torturing a human being is almost always wrong, but it is not absolutely wrong.”
Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
“Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.”
“Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves.
Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!”
Source: A Doll's House
“Torveld favoured Laurent with another of those long, admiring looks that were starting to come with grating frequency. Damen frowned. Laurent was a nest of scorpions in the body of one person. Torveld looked at him and saw a buttercup.”
Source: Captive Prince
“Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.”
“Tory is so beautiful that it violently smacks you in the face every single time you look at him. The kind of beautiful that makes people squirm with discomfort.”
Source: Icing Hearts
“Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.”
“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.”
“Toss him over," Zoya said. "Break his heart cruelly. I will gladly give our poor prince comfort, and I would make a magnificent queen.”
Source: Ruin and Rising
“Toss me like a dough and watch me RISE!”
“Toss me one of your pencils!"
"Have you gone mad?" I cried even as I removed the pencil from my cloak pocket and threw it at his head.
It began to transform before it even reached him, elongating and flashing through the shadows--- a sword. I regretted aiming for his head then, but Wendell caught it with the grace of a trained swordsman, which of course he was.
Watching Wendell with a sword is like watching a bird leap from a branch--- there is something thoughtless about it, innate. One has the sense that he is less himself without a sword, that wielding it returns him to the element most natural to him.
He drove the sword into the nearest sheerie, and before it had fallen he had spun round to slash at the one behind him, slicing it open like overripe fruit. The other three fell just as easily.”
Source: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
“Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.”
“Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.”
“Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.”
“Tossing away a piece of paper is clearly taboo.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“Tossing it to a corner, he turns back to take my hand. And I’m facing the chest that I’ve not been able to dislodge from my brain for weeks. The one that instantly makes my breath hitch. The one that I’ve never had a chance to stare at so blatantly while sober. And I do stare now. Like a deer caught in headlights, I can’t seem to turn away as I take in all the ridges and curves.
“What does that mean?” I ask, jutting my chin toward the inked symbol over his heart. Ashton doesn’t answer. He avoids the question completely by sliding his thumb across my bottom lip.
“You have a bit of drool there,”
“Tossing out ideas itself was good. Stimulating the conference was something that should be welcomed.
I didn’t mind if a formal brainstorm was chosen for the sake of presenting many ideas.
But in the brainstorm and conference we were holding where nobody’s ideas were rejected, there was no foreseeable conclusion in sight.
The conference I thought was proceeding on smoothly was beginning to look nonsensical.
When I noticed, my hands recording the minutes had stopped. I loosely let my hands hang under the desk and sat there in silence watching the conference. The expression that I had was completely different from those who were energetically involved in the discussion. They had vivid and bright smiles floating on their faces. That was when I noticed.
They were all enjoying this moment. That’s to say, they were enjoying this exchange between each other. What they wanted wasn’t the very idea of volunteer
service, but the self-acknowledgement of them doing these activities.
It’s not that they wanted to do work. They just wanted to be immersed with the feeling of working. They just wanted to feel like they were actually doing it.
And then, they would feel like they did everything that they could, where ultimately, everything had turned into nothing.”
Source: やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。9
“Tot ce-ai să fii când te faci mare vei fi tot tu, dar cu haine ceva mai mari și încălțări mai grele.”
Source: Se îndoaie după vânt
“Tot ce merge rău în România nu decurge din vreo orientare greșită sau din proasta gestiune românească; de vină sunt ceilalți: ceilalți care ne-au prădat, ca și ceilalți care nu ne-au sărit în ajutor când aveau datoria să o facă.”
Source: Istorie şi mit în conştiinţa românească
“Tot ce nu-i fericire este un minus de iubire.”
Source: Cartea amăgirilor
“Tot ce putem şti, fără temerea de a fi dezmintiţo este că suntem purtătorii bogaţi ai unor excepţionale posibilităţi. Tot ce putem crede, fără de a săvârşi un atentat împotriva lucidităţii, este că ni s-a dat să luminăm cu floarea noastră de mâine un colt de pământ. Tot ce putem spera, fără de a ne lăsa manevraţi de iluzii, este mândria unor iniţiative spirituale, istorice, care să sară, din când în când, ca o scânteie şi asupra creştetelor altor popoare. Restul e - ursită.”
Source: Spatiul mioritic