There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to…

I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders…

— Peter Pace

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

— Gary L. Francione

“Beyond the economics of production efficiency, animal welfare laws that require "humane" treatment are really not about animals; they're about humans and making humans…

— Gary Francione

If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

— Adam Cohen

“It is impossible to reconcile the principles of humane treatment with the inherently inhumane act of sending animals to slaughter, irrespective of how “good”…

— Hope Bohanec

“What, then, is the solution to this moral schizophrenia we have about animals? According to Francione, we only have two choices: we either continue…

— Bob Torres

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are…

— Jane Mayer

This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who…

— Rudolf Hoss

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more…

— Anonymous

The basic gamut of civil and political rights in terms of disappearances, detainees, people who are surrendered, what happened the missing. Any talk about…

— Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

With respect to the legal justifications or the policies relating to the treatment of detainees, I was not aware of any issues on that…

— Brett Kavanaugh

The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try…

— Peter Maurer

Torture is and must remain illegal. Warrantless wiretapping is also illegal, as was the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Qatar without proper notice.

— Joe Sestak

Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence, because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop. Second,…

— John McCain