Humanity Quote by Peter Maurer

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

“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

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone…

— Sharon Salzberg

Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a certain power…

— Saadi Yacef

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of…

— Isabel Paterson

Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.

— Peter Maurer

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It…

— Bell Hooks

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action…

— Peter Ackroyd

“A refusal on the part of psychiatrists and therapists to validate the horrors of their patients' tortured past implies a refusal to take seriously…

— Felicity De Zulueta

The aim of torture is to destroy a person as a human being, to destroy their identity and soul. It is more evil than…

— Inge Genefke

The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we…

— Jo Coudert