Quotes with torture

  • Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
  • There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Gary Kasparov Chess is mental torture.
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Matt Groening Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Henry Newman It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Henrik Ibsen It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Pais The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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