Choice Quote by Peter Maurer

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

— Gary Bauer

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

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs.…

— Gary Bauer

And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it…

— John Stuart Mill

As a general rule, interrogations without clearly defined legal limits are brutal. Particularly when they have an imperative to get information out of a…

— Malcolm Nance

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a…

— Julian Baggini

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves.…

— Jesse Ventura

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted…

— Earl Warren

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

— Derrick Bell

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

— Hanif Kureishi

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We…

— Charlie Munger