“It's the worst form of torture a person can imagine-the wait to die.” PersonsFormDiesWaitingImagineWorstTorture Author:Tarryn Fisher
“That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.” TryingKindDoeMadeStillsSidesPresidentDarkSituationGoneFateImagineSecurityDangerousDangerOfficeEvidenceDecidedStrategyEmbraceVicesGravesHungryTortureTowersDark SideHideousParanoidVice PresidentFundamentalistWartimeUnknowingPower Hungry Author:Andrew Sullivan
“Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.” WritingSelfAnswersImagineLettersNotionSatisfiedTortureScrewsCorrespondenceScribblesLetter Writing Book:Life and letters Source: Life and letters
“Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being. Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.” IfsWorldDifferentMightImagineMoralityCreaturesAbuseSentencesTortureInsultOur WorldTormentSingle SentencePatriarchJainism Author:Sam Harris
“The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.” HumansHardPurposeHuman BeingsImagineHorrorProjectsDestructionUltimateTortureHumiliationEnslavement Author:Richard Flanagan