Torture Always Works/Quotes

""If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire! Now, that don't necessarily make it fucking so!""

- "Nice Guy" Eddie, Reservoir Dogs

"So far you have been treated as an Officer and a Gentleman, but don't think that this will go on if you don't behave better than you have done. You have two hours left in which to confess everything. If you don't, I shall hand you over to the Gestapo, who are used to dealing with such gangsters and criminals — you won't enjoy their methods a bit."

- Reinhard Heydrich

""A lot of people's first instinct when they need information out of a captive is to grab a baseball bat or a gun. The fact is, torture is for sadists and thugs. It's like getting groceries with a flamethrower; it doesn't work, and it makes a mess.""

- Michael Westen, Burn Notice

""I was tortured once. I didn't like it. You know what the really fucked up part was? They tore out my left nut. That really turned me off to the whole thing.""

- Second Mook discussing matters with First Mook about torturing an FBI agent, Once Upon a Time In Mexico.

""They didn't even ask me any questions.""

- Han Solo, The Empire Strikes Back.

""You don't even get good information that way. After a point, victims admit to anything to make the pain stop.""

- Garrus on the Purgatory, Mass Effect 2

"Batman: WHERE ARE THEY? Joker: (laughing) You have nothing! Nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength!"

- The Dark Knight Saga

""The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.""

- Napoleon Bonaparte, in a 1798 letter