Compensation Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

There is compensation in all things.

— Anna Leonowens

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

— Cesare Beccaria

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer…

— Chinua Achebe

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the…

— George Sand

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal…

— Anonymous

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

— Seneca the Younger

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of…

— Dalai Lama

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for…

— Anton Chekhov

Death is the reward for living

— Sylvia Browne

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Payable On Death is actually a banking term, when someone passes on, what someone leaves behind. We related that to Jesus on the cross,…

— Sonny Sandoval

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

— Susanna Reid