History Quotes / TortureTechnician

->''"You must understand that I'm not in the slightest bit interested in studying resistance to pain or any such pseudo-scientific claptrap. I just want to torture people. But—this is the point—not for any selfish reason, unless you call a saint or a martyr selfish. As de Sade explains in The Philosopher in the Boudoir, through cruelty one rises to heights of superhuman awareness, of sensitivity to new modes of being, that can't be attained by any other method. And the victim—you too, [[Literature/JamesBond James]], will be spiritually illuminated in the way so many Christian authorities describe as uplifting to the soul: through suffering. Side-by-side you and I will explore the heights.''"

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->''"Ease up. Wait between lashes. Otherwise the old sting will dull him to the new."''
-->--'''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''

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[[folder:Light Novel]]

-->-- ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}''

-->-- '''Series/BabylonFive''', "Intersections in Real Time"

-->-- '''Roose Bolton,''' ''Series/GameOfThrones: History and Lore''

-->--'''[[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Mr.Ho]]''', ''[[{{Film/Mortdecai}} After You with the Pistol]]''

->''"Most torture is crap; it amuses torturer only; makes innocent man confess to anything, makes guilty man lie, makes stupid man dead too soon. Gestapo: Rubbish. Professional torture simple. First, hurt very much at beginning. Most people do not realize how much pain hurts. Second, remove male members. [[FalseReassurance Most people talk before this.]] Third, remove eyesight. Fourth, promise quick death. That is all. [[ToThePain Watch.]]”''

Excerpt From
The Mortdecai Trilogy
Kyril Bonfiglioli

-->-- ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Season 12 Episode 15 "Accentuate the Interrogative"

->"I mean, you give me an enemy of the state, I'm good for an afternoon. I'd do this for free."

->"You know, Russell, you're a great torturer. I mean, you can make a man scream for mercy in nothing flat... but boy, you sure can't make a good cup of coffee."

->"I think this is very pretty... The design. It’s functional. Finely crafted to exacting specifications. Klingon ''oy'naQ'' are so ''crude''. We acquired the design from them, of course, back in the reign of their Emperor Sompek, but we refined it far in advance of their pathetic efforts. It won’t kill you, but the amount of pain or pleasure you feel is entirely up to me. I find it is particularly effective to give ''akhvet''—I believe the human term is 'humanoids', such a self-centered word—a powerful arousal, and then immediately before they peak, [[MoodWhiplash trigger their pain center]] as I did to you just now."

->"Ease up. Wait between lashes. Otherwise the old sting will dull him to the new."

->"Gentleman, torture as a political instrument is no longer the crude and brutal extraction of information from one's enemies. It has become a subtle and sophisticated specialty."

-->--''Sacrament,'' by Matt Williamson

->Well, can't hang around here all day. I've got a battery-powered [[{{Fingore}} fingernail-plucker]] to wire up.

-->-- '''Series/BabylonFive''', ''Intersections in Real Time''

->[[TongueTrauma We’ll save the tongue for last]]. He’ll need it to confess. As for the rest... well, pick a limb and hand me the pliers.

-> Once you tell us what we need we can dispose of you and all this will end. Until then, we own you and will do with you as we see fit. You are an object now. You are a receptacle for knowledge that we will wring out of you. That process will be easier if you co-operate. You ceased to be a human being when you betrayed your species and your Emperor, the only way out for you is death. I can make it quick but those who come after me will not be so generous.

-> [[AffablyEvil I must say, Paul, your little corner of Kyrat here is rather beautiful.]] I expected more... chains and wailing. But, knowing you, somewhere around here is a dark place where the secrets flow like the blood.

-> It is not uncommon to see patients undergo permanent psychological trauma in the presence of the Sphere, before the nerve stapler has even been strapped into position. Its effect on the general consciousness of the culture is profound: husbands have seen wives go inside, and mothers their children. Dr. Xynan left the surface of the sphere semitranslucent for a reason. You can hear them in there; you can see them. It is a thing of terrible beauty.

-> ''"Unlike some other houses, my ancestors earned the Bolton words: ''"Our Blades Are Sharp."'' [[AncestralWeapon They passed down]] not a [[{{Unobtanium}} Valyrian]] [[CoolSword greatsword]], but a [[KnifeNut knife]], honed and thin enough to fit between the topmost layer of skin and the tissue below... and '''[[FlayingAlive peel]].''' For as we all learned as children, "A naked man has few secrets, a flayed man '''none.'''"''

-->--'''Judge Claude Frollo''', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''