Against death penalty Quote by Alan Parker Download Open image “Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.” — Alan Parker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Against death penalty Death Death penalty Penalties Reason
I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty. — Susanna Reid 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 evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed… — Al Gore Copy Share
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically,… — Peter Moskos Copy Share
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can… — John Grisham 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
I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around... — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it… — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. — Anthony Jeselnik 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 desire for… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've… — Shane Claiborne 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 do not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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 the minimum… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it.… — Gabino Zavala Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
