Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
The mind is the greatest weapon in the world.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
There's been a lot of experience with torture in history. It doesn't work.