“Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” — United Nations Copy Share Image
I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I… — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
“Next to not living with those one loves, the worst torture is living with those one doesn't love.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture? — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Torture is being married to a proud, insensitive man, while an attentive, supportive man lives under the same roof.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
“What in god’s name happened to your nuts?” “They met a jet-powered water hose.” He grimaced. “They’re already healing.” A rare glint… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer… — Pete Visclosky Copy Share Image
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“My doppelganger wraps the ear in a handkerchief and shoves it into his pocket as he leaves the train with a nod… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Some abusers organise themselves in groups to abuse children and other adults in a more formally ritualised way. Men and women in… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as… — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It's kinda like nursing a POW back to health so he's at his strongest when you torture him. -Sue — Glee Copy Share Image
“One blanket, coupled with a fluffy pillow, could be implemented as a torture device for insomniacs. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.” — Guru Gobind Singh Copy Share Image
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon Copy Share Image
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“When Lisa awoke she was back in the cell on the floor covered in her own blood, dirt, and urine. And that… — Mia Moore Copy Share Image
In addition to being a terrorist recruiting tool, Guantanamo is a huge drain on taxpayer dollars. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“You can learn more about people from their instruments of torture than you can from their works of beauty.” — James Maxwell Copy Share Image
After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
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