Capital punishment Quote by Mort Sahl Download Open image “I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?” — Mort Sahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital punishment Crime People Punishment
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958” — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.” — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Those who the gods would make rich and famous on TV, they first drive mad. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really… — Mort Sahl 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