Torture Quotes - page 14

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. (Andrew Greeley)

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Bob Beauprez

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

Criss Angel

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

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

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.

David Miliband

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

Emile Hirsch

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

Howard Coble

We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare's head.” They looked at me. "Why the head?” Doolittle asked. "Because it's easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn't just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.

Ilona Andrews

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

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture. (Jeffrey Deitch)

WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

Jemima Khan

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

Jessica Capshaw

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

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

I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini

I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.

Juliet Stevenson

Silence, too, can be torture.

Justina Chen

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Kenneth Oppel

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Kevin Nealon

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history. (Katharine Lee Bates)

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

Mariella Frostrup

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Marisha Pessl

I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

Madeline Carroll

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

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