Torture Quotes

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

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.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

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.

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

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

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.

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.

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

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.