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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.
Anyone will say anything under torture.
It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
Everyone is tortured. Do you know anyone who isn't?
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.