"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
– Mohandas Gandhi
"There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture
you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but
toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him."– Umberto Eco
"Torture is illegal. The meaning of torture is fixed
in international law and convention. Murder is illegal. That is fixed
by our law. The meaning of rape is very clear. The meaning of a lot of
these things is very clear. What is unclear is a couple of phrases that
we are trying to provide clarity…"
– Tony Snow, White House Spokesperson. press conference
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