Molly Crabapple Quotes

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

When it comes to how the slaves treat each other: If you've been brutalized all your life - if you have seen your children sold or your mother beaten and raped and you have been tortured yourself - you are not going to be up for your best behaviour. Even in the 21st century, 100 people in the midst of terrible suffering are not going to be their best people.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

There were two Avoxes with me in prison. Darius and Lavinia, but the guards mostly called them the redheads. They'd been our servants in the Training Center, so they arrested them, too. I watched them being tortured to death. She was lucky. They used too much voltage and her heart stopped right off. It took days to finish him off. Beating, cutting off parts. They kept asking him questions, but he couldn't speak, he just made these horrible animals sounds. They didn't want information, you know? They wanted me to see it.

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

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Torture was necessary to maintain slavery. It was integral to slavery. You cannot have slavery without some torture or the threat of torture; and you cannot have torture without slavery. You cannot imprison a free man forever unless you have broken him; and you can only forcibly break a man's soul by torturing it out of him. Slavery dehumanizes; torture dehumanizes in exactly the same way. The torture of human beings who have no freedom and no recourse to the courts is slavery.

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

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's just accepted.

How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the 12th century. That's what happens when you decapitate intelligentsia and repeatedly traumatize and brutalize a country for decades on end: you do not get virtue. Victims do not make nice people.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Those who tortured me had no right to inflict such humiliation on a human being, physically upon my person, and morally upon themselves.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

Torture arises in societies afflicted with a culture of dehumanization.

The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.