Before death Quote by Alan Dershowitz

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly…

— Catherine the Great

Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that.

— Mike Pence

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

— Jane Mayer

Torture gives you reliable and unreliable information. That's the reason why most people in the world don't do it. So this idea that you…

— John McCain

It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.

— Tarryn Fisher

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…

— Alan Dershowitz

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get…

— Iain Banks

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is…

— Henry Giroux

Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of…

— George W. Bush

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our…

— Sam Harris

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the…

— Robert Baer

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than…

— Inge Genefke