Torture Quotes - page 15

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)
I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture. View quote
Melissa Sagemiller
Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really. View quote
Odette Annable
In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking. View quote
Osman Baydemir
Only cowards torture women. View quote
Patricia Briggs
Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain. View quote
Robert Winston
I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture. View quote
Raquel Zimmermann
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather's farm, and we didn't torture the animals, and we didn't feed them stuff we wouldn't eat. View quote
Sandra Lerner
Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. View quote
Sara Zarr
There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture. View quote
Tom Ridge
One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture. (Tom Ridge)
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch. View quote
Tamsin Egerton
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives. View quote
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman. View quote
Vanessa Ferlito
Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition. View quote
Tiffanie DeBartolo
It was not torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find Osama bin Laden. View quote
John McCain
I've been amused by the debate in America over whether torture is effective... Of course it's effective. View quote
Daniel Suarez
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career. View quote
John Lennon
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. View quote
Marjane Satrapi
...I could not say honestly today that this administration does not believe in torture, does not engage in torture. View quote
Scott McClellan
Jeff Gannon: In your denunciations of the Abu Ghraib photos, you've used words like "sickening," "disgusting" and "reprehensible." Will you have any adjectives left to adequately describe the pictures from Saddam's rape rooms and torture chambers? And will Americans ever see those images? Scott McClellan: I'm glad you brought that up, Jeff, because the President talks about that often. (Scott McClellan)
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. View quote
Ba Jin
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself. View quote
Ba Jin
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
The cross is the symbol of torture. I prefer the dollar sign, the symbol of free trade, therefore of the free mind. View quote
Ayn Rand