Back Quote by Stellan Skarsgard

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

— Eduardo Galeano

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something…

— George Carlin

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Molly Ivins

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

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 always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done…

— Eli Roth

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 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 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