Truth Extraction Quotes

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them.

Torture was never intended in its earliest days to be a quest for the truth. It was intended to get people to confess to things they hadn't done like being a witch. We have turned it around and tried to legitimize it.

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

Torture is an extremely effective tool for getting people to talk. It is a terrible tool for getting people to tell the truth.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

The judge must then address to the prisoners the following sentence: We, the judge, etc., do assign to you,------, such and such a day for the continuation of the tortures, that from your own mouth the truth may be heard, and that the whole may be recorded by the notary.