Jim Bakker Quotes

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a period of days during the period when the British state was indicted for inhuman and degrading treatment in 1971-72, or even the guys who shot me, if you don't forgive them, you end up with unnecessary baggage.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The worst thing that happened to me as a child was seeing my brother get pushed into a cement mixer.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that.

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

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I’d like to do a job where I don’t have to tie women to beds.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

People aren't for hitting.

I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

There was one time they knocked me out and laid me in front of my mother's door. And in order for my mother not to be shocked they readjusted my clothes and they saw that nothing was rumpled and I looked very comfortable next to the apartment door, so when my mother would open the door it wouldn't be that much of a shock.

When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)