“The only mistake of the dictatorship was torturing and not killing.”

— Jair Bolsonaro

Militares protestam no Rio contra possibilidade de revisão da Lei de Anistia http://memoria.ebc.com.br/agenciabrasil/noticia/2008-08-07/militares-protestam-no-rio-contra-possibilidade-de-revisao-da-lei-de-anistia. Agência Brasil (7 August 2008).

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Jair Bolsonaro 118

Brazilian president elect 1955

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 9, p. 102

“It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.”

Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist

Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
2000s, 2006

“Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

"Value of Dissent" speech Nashville, Tennessee (21 March 1968)

“Titan! to thee the strife was given
Between the suffering and the will,
Which torture where they cannot kill”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

II.
Prometheus (1816)
Context: Titan! to thee the strife was given
Between the suffering and the will,
Which torture where they cannot kill;
And the inexorable Heaven,
And the deaf tyranny of Fate,
The ruling principle of Hate,
Which for its pleasure doth create
The things it may annihilate,
Refused thee even the boon to die:
The wretched gift eternity
Was thine — and thou hast borne it well.
All that the Thunderer wrung from thee
Was but the menace which flung back
On him the torments of thy rack;
The fate thou didst so well foresee,
But would not to appease him tell;
And in thy Silence was his Sentence,
And in his Soul a vain repentance,
And evil dread so ill dissembled,
That in his hand the lightnings trembled.