I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and…

The most powerful message is the one you cannot hear nor speak, but see and experience.

— Anonymous

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

— Mikhail Lermontov

“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness…

— Christopher Hitchens

There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.

— Molly Ivins

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

— Amy Dickinson

I feel like it's almost my purpose to speak up about my experience so it could help somebody else.

— Normani Hamilton

I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.

— Jesse Ventura

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

“So, then I’ll just use Jesse’s to torture you some more.”

— Bella Jeanisse

When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

— Simon Wiesenthal

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…

— Mark Twain

“No matter what torture they inflict, don’t let them see you suffer.”

— Sansa Rayne

“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.”

— Melissa Andrea

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage