Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Human beings can do some God-awful things to other human beings

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

The cruelties committed against the Hottentots exceed everything that is said about it in Cape Town or what can be imagined.

There is not a criminal in a European jail, nor a cannibal in the South Sea Islands, whose indignation would not rise at the recital of what has been done.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

[A] representative of... a government whose Three Graces are Tyranny, Rapacity, Blood.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

No conditions justify torture.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.