It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen
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. Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. Bertrand Russell
If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on. Cameron Diaz
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. David Attenborough
The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded. Kate Chopin