“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“While Americans grimace at the mention of the Hitler Influence, there is nowhere to run, no where to hide from our Auschwitz and Dachau–-Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.”
Bobby W. Miller
“I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well”
Catullus
“There is no question that U.S. interrogations have resulted in deaths. High-ranking officials who knew about the torture and sat on their hands and those who created and endorsed these policies must be held accountable.”
Anthony D. Romero
“There's an intermediate risk of torture, ... It's not just a risk of jail, there's no doubt he'll be jailed.”
David Matas
“The assurances of known torturers, many of whom deny the use of torture even when it is widely documented, are not worth the paper they are written on.”
Mike Blakemore
“The issue is one of constitutional principle, whether evidence obtained by torturing another human being may lawfully be admitted against a party to proceedings in a British court, irrespective of where, or by whom, or on whose authority the torture was inflicted. To that question I would give a very clear negative answer.”
Lord Bingham
