About Quote by Noam Chomsky

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

— Eduardo Galeano

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that…

— Andrew Sullivan