Agree Quote by Anna Quindlen

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

— James Russell Lowell

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

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

— Molly Ivins

I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're…

— Stellan Skarsgard

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective,…

— Noam Chomsky

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of…

— Andrew Sullivan

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether…

— Noam Chomsky

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

— Anonymous

...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Not only is America a country where torture is now policy. It's now outsourced. It's given to companies at a cost-plus basis. It's a…

— John Cusack

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

— Mark Zuckerberg

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds…

— Neal Stephenson