The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Torture
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.
To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.