Active Quote by Karl Hess

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

— John F. Kerry

This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without…

— Philip Alston

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now,…

— John F. Kerry

States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions.…

— Pope Francis

I have no particular objection to death by its very nature; it pays all bills.

— Vikrant Parsai

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were…

— Anonymous

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly…

— Blase J. Cupich

“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the…

— Helen Prejean

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the…

— Helen Prejean

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

— Willy Brandt