Contrary Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Murder is an attempt to blot out the image of God here on earth. Unrighteous anger against someone made in the image of God…

— Gloria Furman

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

— Seneca the Younger

“In humanism, murder is bad not because of a commandment against it, but because of the terrible suffering it causes the victim’s loved ones.”

— GBF Summary

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Crime (murder) is: wanting to put the blame on the other (God).

— Vikrant Parsai

Death persecutes before it executes.

— Cynthia Ozick

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

— Cesare Beccaria

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire

Death is a law not a punishment.

— Anonymous

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement…

— Dennis Prager

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

— Fritz Haber

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.

— Sappho