Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual…

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or…

— Antonin Scalia

“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause.”

— Terry Pratchett

“The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment,” I told him when he stepped down from the podium. “What?” he innocently asked. “Getting you out…

— Chloe Neill

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or…

— Salman Rushdie

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand…

— Martin Luther

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to…

— Kathryn Bigelow

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

— Martha Ostenso

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Overcrowding, which is one symptom of the population instability, continues. It continues, not because the overcrowded people remain, but because they leave. Too many…

— Jane Jacobs

Covid is not dying because of overcrowding. In fact, is going to grow.

— Uddhav Thackeray

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I…

— H. R. Giger

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.…

— Scott Westerfeld

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack…

— P. J. O'Rourke

To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We…

— Isaac Asimov