Quote by Helen Prejean

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests…

— Leonard Cohen

“A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the…

— John Peter Nettl

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of…

— Pope Leo XIII

“He understood what the priest could not. That what we seek is the worthy adversary. For we strike out to fall flailing through demons…

— Cormac McCarthy

“forsaken him. The priests who serve the”

— Zondervan

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Conceit does not sit well with martyrdom.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers,…

— Robert Walser

“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”

— Joel Norris

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And…

— Booth Tarkington

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill