Torture Quotes

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.

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

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.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

When you have girl children they torture you!

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

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.

Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United States has always been illegal.

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.

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.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

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.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

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.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.