“Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'” PersonsSaidHelpingPainTogetherFormCausesHellProduceBearsViolentTeethSubstanceTortureReliefRemoveTemporaryBitesSuggestionsDescribingExertionVehemenceTemporary Relief Book:Zoonomia Source: Zoonomia
“I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.” WorldSaidAmericaEffortMoralMoralityTortureStatureParcel Author:Barack Obama
“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?” KnowsSaidUsedEnemyOffersGainsHistoricalTerrorTechniqueAdministrationFantasticIronyTortureSuspectsConfessionMccainVietnamese Author:Andrew Sullivan