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There is no need for use of torture instruments such as ankush for controlling the elephants. We can do it with the help of verbal commands.
- Mark Shand
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If you torture a man as I was tortured he will learn more about love than you could ever imagine, and that has left me vulnerable.
- Nick Yarris
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Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
- Joey Lauren Adams
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Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
- Peter Benenson
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Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
- Jerrold Nadler
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We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
- Jerrold Nadler
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Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
- Marty Meehan
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
- Gary L. Francione
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Chess is mental torture.
- Garry Kasparov
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An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.
- Lisa Kudrow
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Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
- Jerrold Nadler
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Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
- Jennifer Beals
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
- Charles Horton Cooley
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Transplant is a life-changing 'experience. Organ donation transforms lives. It is torture for you, torment for you as an individual in need.
- Andy Cole
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If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?
- Jose Rodriguez
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I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.
- Malcolm Nance
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Torture and cruelty are the words that come to mind when people think of the Tower. Here it was that the princes were murdered, Guy Fawkes racked and Henry VIII's queens executed.
- Lucy Worsley
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Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.
- David Harsanyi
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
- Lajos Kossuth
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I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.
- Karan Johar
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I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.
- Bobby Sands
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Honestly, you could beat me, torture me - just don't bore me.
- Rob Riggle
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A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's like torture.
- Alexa Chung
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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.
- Osman Baydemir
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As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
- Jasmila Zbanic
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Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and I'm not going to stop doing them.
- Marielle Heller
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Torture produces unreliable evidence and therefore doesn't achieve and protect anybody. Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.
- Cherie Blair
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I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.
- Cenk Uygur
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I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.
- Elizabeth Holmes
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In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time: the massive Kennedy terror operation against Cuba, the first attacks on Vietnam in 1962, the imposition of national security states in South America.
- Noam Chomsky
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Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
- Noam Chomsky
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Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
- Greg Boyle
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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
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I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
- Robert Capa
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The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.
- Peter Maurer
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There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.
- Tom Ridge
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I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.
- Steve Capus
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Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.
- Peter Maurer
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I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.
- Jayne Ann Krentz
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Anyone will say anything under torture.
- George Galloway
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Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
- Gregg Easterbrook
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
- John Henry Newman
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This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
- John Yoo
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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
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Torture goes against the very soul of our country. We are a democracy, established on the rule of law.
- Dianne Feinstein
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I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
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I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that the cognitive complexity is as important.
- Steven Johnson
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When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
- Tom Hodgkinson
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
- Adam Carolla
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
- Yousef Munayyer
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I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?
- Ron Reagan
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
- Agnes Smedley
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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal.
- James Bovard
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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
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Dating in the closet is torture. It's one of the most difficult things, especially if you are completely closeted.
- Gus Kenworthy
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I don't believe that torture works.
- Gina Haspel
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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
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
- Stanislaw Lem
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The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
- Janet Fitch
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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.
- James Anthony Froude
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
- Ferdinand Marcos
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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.
- Edgar Lee Masters
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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.
- Ida B. Wells
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There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.
- Noam Chomsky
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Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
- Noam Chomsky
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
- Francis Bacon
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
- Peter Maurer
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
- Frances Conroy
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And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.
- George Weinberg
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Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
- Edward Kennedy
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There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
- Molly Ivins
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Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
- Luther Burbank
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
- Luis Bunuel
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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
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen
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People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.
- Sofia Vergara
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The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
- Pope Francis
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Love is a reciprocal torture.
- Marcel Proust
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
- D. H. Lawrence
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
- Edward Everett Hale
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
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