"Government ... can't be trusted to control its……" — Helen Prejean
"Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill."
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22 Quotes by Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean has 22 quotes on this site.
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The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that…
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If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People…
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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
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The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the…
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When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed,…
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If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for…
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The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human…
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I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in…
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Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
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I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something…
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I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any…
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Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of…
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
— Barbara Boxer
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats…
— Al Gore
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
— L. Neil Smith
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of…
— John Berger
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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as…
— Rajeev Shukla
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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they…
— William J. Clinton
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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion.…
— Ron Paul
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To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
— Henry Spencer
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