Capital punishment Quote by Richard Attenborough Download Open image “I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.” — Richard Attenborough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital punishment Life Opposed Opposed Capital Passionately Opposed Penalty Punishment Punishment Life
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death. — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
If you've ever seen the film In Which We Serve, but it was about a destroyer in the Mediterranean. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I believe in trade unionism, and I believe in democracy, in democratic trade unionism. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
When asked what attribute he most admired in human nature, Mahatma Gandhi replied, simply and immediately, 'Courage'. 'Nonviolence', he said, 'is not to be… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. — Richard Attenborough 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
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