Quotes About Torture

The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history's hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.

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

I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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?

Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.

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

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.

You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

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

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

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.

Tourette's is involuntary in that it is impossible not to do. And it's torture to know what you're doing and not be able to stop it.