The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood Copy Share Image
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross! — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player. play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee… — Wayne Rooney Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
a man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Sharia is the most oppressive system on earth. It encourages people to lie, if it's for the benefits of Islam. It doesn't… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you… — Wade Schalles Copy Share Image
Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what… — Terry Goodkind 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
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
