Ramsey Clark Quotes

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.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

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

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

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

War dehumanizes everyone.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

They want you to bring out your intestines.

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.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

I like hurting people.

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

Violence diminishes our humanity.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Looks like she's been slapping the kid again.

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