Community Quote by John Maynard Keynes

In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive…

— Saul Bellow

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be…

— Kenneth Patchen

Punishment of any crime should be dangerous when someone thinked about crime his soul is vibrating remains punishment.

— Mak_786

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

— Honore de Balzac

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes…

— Gabrielle Giffords

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

— Albert Bandura

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

— Deborah Moggach

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the…

— Timothy Snyder

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is…

— Stephen Levine