284 Quotes About Torture

E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.)[What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]

Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.

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. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.

Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.

Torture can be a two edged sword.

Yeah, he’d yield. He was a bad cut of steak left on the open grill too long, though—the general’s teeth wouldn’t be enough to do the job.

يتعذب من يحب .. يتعذب أكثر من يُخلص

A guitar twanged from the far-off radio. Country music. Damn. They'd resorted to torture already.

You can't have occupation and human rights.