We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.


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Hope was cruel. It could be an act of torture far more profound than despair.
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I don't torture myself.
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The evidence is overwhelming that it should be deemed as such: solitary confinement in the U.S. is a...
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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
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The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pai...
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The Uzbek government's promises not to torture these men are not worth the paper they're written on....
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There already is a present law against torture,
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'm against this war, I'm against the torture. We're doing this for the people of Iraq.
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Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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Whatever you try to do without sufficient knowledge will simply become a torture
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The secret of torture, like the secret of French cuisine, is that nothing is unthinkable.
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How delicious are these implements of torture.
MARQUIS DE SADE
we do not torture.
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I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you chose to suffer.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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Laws of Sex;Sadistic sex;Some derive pleasure in torture & extreme pain during sex,infact some prefe...
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It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against to...
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Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam.
"Do they?" said Vimes. "...
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I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!
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It's really death by incarceration. You're really putting someone to a slow, psychological death, an...
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You could line up 100 people against the wall and shoot them all, but is that necessarily torture?
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It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hat...
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They are very marked by three years of ill treatment and torture.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture...
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
YOUSEF MUNAYYER
bind, torture and kill.
BOY SCOUT
face torture and death.
RAY DAVIES
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are b...
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house...
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Our report finds that there is a gap between policies leadership says it respects on paper, and beha...
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Do you approve of torture?
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It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president...
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