Capital punishment Quote by Walter Benjamin Download Open image “The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.” — Walter Benjamin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital punishment Crime Criminals Killing Moral
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery. — C. S. Lewis 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
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
“As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this position, as… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of convictions, and of such facts as have scarcely… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“It should be pointed out that certain correlative concepts retain their meaning, and possibly their foremost significance, if they are referred exclusively to man.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity’s entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to… — Walter Benjamin 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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