Torture Quotes

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. - Emmanuelle Beart

Acts of torture or severe violation of detainees' dignity through the administration of inhuman or degrading treatment are carried outside national territory and beyond the authority of national intelligence services. - Dick Marty

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. - Yousef Munayyer

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. - John Foxe

A lot of voices were very loud, expressing their anger for taking a Christian military person as a hostage and killing him while they kept their mouth shut from saying anything supporting those poor Muslims who are in prisons and being tortured by the hands of the cross-believers. - Abu Ghraib

A long and tortured history, of which we are not at all proud. - Nathan Barankin

A cord was wrapped around his neck. A metal pipe was used to beat him with. It was a gruesome torture. - Tandra Simonton

[There should be plenty of visuals to watch, including realistic depictions of the way Christ was tortured before his excruciating crucifixion. Caviezel, also a practicing Catholic, spent 15 days on the cross during shooting and was scourged so realistically that he dislocated a shoulder at one point.] There's an immense amount of suffering on this... Fortunately, God is helping me. - Jim Caviezel

[The] report, with its detailed description of acts of torture, makes for difficult reading, but it is extremely important that it is now part of the record of this inquiry. - Paul Cavalluzzo