Forbidden Quote by Voltaire

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

— Voltaire

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

— C. S. Lewis

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

— Benjamin Franklin

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

— Dean Smith

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Killing one person was murder; killing a few or dozens was ore murder; so killing thousands or tens of thousands ought to be punished…

— Liu Cixin

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

— Gladys Mitchell

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

— Wendy Kaminer

...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories…

— Don Kates

Remember, the death penalty is murder.

— Robert Drew