Cutting Quote by Wendy Kaminer Download Open image “We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?” — Wendy Kaminer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cutting Death penalty Hands Murder Murderer Thieves
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute… — John C. McAdams Copy Share Image
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Some people would argue that we don’t do a very good job. But taking the long view, that is clearly not true. Consider the historical trend in homicide (not including wars), which is both the most reliably measured crime and the best barometer of a society’s overall crime rate. These statistics, compiled by the criminologist Manuel Eisner, track the historical… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share
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
Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just… — Jack Black Copy Share
I've seen lots of murders, no murder is ever nice, and I just don't think the victim's family has an opportunity to get all the justice they might want. We seem to always forget about victim's families and we focus in on the criminal and we need to get away from that and focus on the people that are actually… — John Cabello Copy Share
I think that far too often we let those who commit crimes in our society off far too lightly. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas. — Anthony de Mello 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
Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens. — Emmanuel Teney Copy Share Image
Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics -… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
There ain't no such thing as black Muslims. That's how they tried to cut off all my brothers in the rest of the world… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image