Torture Quotes

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
Arundhati Roy

Made, America, Whole

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
Joey Lauren Adams

Time, Money, Film

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer

Life, Time, Bad

If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
Donald Tusk

End, Against, Situation

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
Grace Kelly

End, Woman, Forty

My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!
Mathias Rust

Good, Angry, Parents

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

True, Both, Illegal

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman

Old, Teeth, Iron

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?
Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Why, Training, Three

This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
Eduardo Galeano

Work, Heart, Joy

Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.
Cassandra Peterson

Women, Movies, Tell

To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me, and it's because of the fantasy element. It's the exorcism. It's the Devil. It's not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don't do it for me, and I don't call them horror.
Cassandra Peterson

Movies, Trying, Made

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
Joe Moore

God, Society, Reflection

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.
John Pilger

Military, United, Iraq

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
Albert Maltz

Life, Friend, Understand

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem

One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture.
Tom Ridge

Power, War, Greatest

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.
Tom Ridge

Mind, Doubt, Water

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
Abraham Pais

Game, Reason, Able

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson

Secret, Countries, Committed

I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.
Raquel Zimmermann

Hate, Idea, Tight

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
George Etherege

Love, Best, Death

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.
Charles D. Ellison

Full, Open, Debate

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