No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also… — Burke Marshall Copy Share Image
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does… — Joseph Fiorenza Copy Share Image
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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