Commands Quote by Mark Shand

...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

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

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

— Molly Ivins

If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant as a gift.

— Vikrant Parsai

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

— Jerrold Nadler

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

— Geraldine Brooks

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.

— Barack Obama

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

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent…

— Sylvia Plath

We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the…

— Edward Snowden

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You…

— Paul Mooney

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any…

— Moby