George Steiner Quotes

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.

I do not wish to sit at the same table with a bunch of torturers.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

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.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

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.

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

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

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

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Torture arises in societies afflicted with a culture of dehumanization.

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

I was different. I got beat up every day.

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

At no time did I suggest that violence is justice, and I can't believe I even have to explain that. But the alternative is letting someone like Kayleigh McEnany misquote and manipulate what you say. McEnany, who repeatedly lies to the American people.

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

I got beat up my whole life.

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

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

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 does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

In the basement of 33 Himmel Street, Max Vandenburg could feel the fists of an entire nation. One by one they climbed into the ring to beat him down. They made him bleed. They let him suffer. Millions of them - until one last time, when he gathered himself to his feet.