Torture Quotes

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

When you have girl children they torture you!

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?

We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique.

Love is a reciprocal torture.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

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.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.