The
healthy man does not torture others - generally it is
the tortured who turn into torturers”
-- Carl Gustav Jung
Shamefully
we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened
under new management, U.S. management.
-- Edward Kennedy
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All
mankind... being all equal and independent, no
one ought to harm another in his life, health,
liberty or possessions.
-- John Locke
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The
right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture,
or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear
destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
-- Sean MacBride
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The
cost in human lives and suffering is so high that
we all have to work to end violence and oppression
once and for all. We have to proclaim that every
human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom —and,
as the first article of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights states,
we have to live “in a spirit of brotherhood.”
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If
you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated,
killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such
behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.
-- Moby |
An
injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.
-- Montesquieu
If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead
is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental
relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole
notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes
that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the
state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right
to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings,
not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful
enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole
Constitution crumbles.
- - Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General Counsel
Whoever
fights monsters should see to it that in the process
he does not become a monster. And when you look into
an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-- Friedrich Nietzche
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