Dangerous Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Barack Obama

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

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

“The most effective torture is not physical—it is mental of course. The mind can imagine terrors far more horrific than you could ever physically…

— Raine Miller

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

— Molly Ivins

Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how…

— Barack Obama

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 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 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

I don't believe that torture works.

— Gina Haspel

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an…

— Jerrold Nadler