It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. Henrik Ibsen
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. Stanislaw Lem
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung
Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. Umberto Eco