Steven Miles Quotes

Anyone and everyone eventually confesses under torture.

The norm was to kill everyone who was kidnapped. And anyone kidnapped was tortured … torture didn’t always work. It left people too destroyed …Torture is eternal. It has always existed and always will. It is an essential part of the human being …. Not one innocent person passed through my hands.

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

They promptly tore his fingernails out and he started telling things.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured, but we can reduce the number of tortured children.

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.

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.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

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

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

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

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

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.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

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

The Negro's and Negro Women are inhumanly treated, are two-thirds naked, and are very disgusting to the Eye and another Sense, Tho I begin to be more habituated to the Sight, yet I cannot be to the great Cruelty made Use of to the poor ignorant Wretches.

Torture of a person anywhere in the world causes humanity everywhere in the world to suffer.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

It is necessary to put down the horrible abuses. These abuses must end or I will retire from the Congo. I will not allow myself to be spattered with blood or mud; it is necessary that these villainies cease.

These servants of the mighty czar are a lazy, over-bearing, cruel lot of vagabonds, who treat the outcast with the same scorn and severity they themselves receive from their superiors. It is their duty to bring so many heads alive to designated places and to account for the lost as being dead. Before leaving a poor wretch on the way, the officer in charge assures himself of the utter uselessness of attempting to take the worn-out prisoner farther. Only when absolutely beyond human aid is she or he left to the mercy of the fierce and hungry wolves