Top Torture Quotes
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
Carl Jung 
Tori Amos 
Albert Maltz 
Bertrand Russell 
John Calvin 
Lisa Kudrow 
Eduardo Galeano 
Friedrich Nietzsche All Torture Quotes
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells 
71% of people like this quote
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank
71% of people like this quote
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
62% of people like this quote
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
62% of people like this quote
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison
61% of people like this quote
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo
60% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
Popular Torture Authors
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