Capital punishment Quote by Brendan Behan Download Open image “I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.” — Brendan Behan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital punishment Crime Depends Imagine Inspirational Life
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I myself spent some time in prison, so I know the type of trajectory that a criminal offense can put on someone's life. — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life… — Claude Lelouch Copy Share Image
You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life,… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with.” — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image