Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.


Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry (ed. 1919)

Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.