“They were forced to consume the bodily waste of another person. That is disgusting. That is torture.”
Bill Grant
“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
“As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.”
Kate Allen
“CLARIONET, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet --two clarionets.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“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 Alva Edison