Death Penalty Quotes - Page 15

• The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

  Dalai Lama

  Revenge, Opportunity, Punishment

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• It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Punishment, People

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

  William J. Brennan

  Country, Practice, Battle

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• The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life; and when that time comes, the way will be clear to device some better method of dealing with poverty and ignorance and their frequent byproducts, which we call crime.

  Clarence Darrow

  Ignorance, Light, Views

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• Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

  Clive Stafford Smith

  Sick World, Calm, Sick

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• What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

  Mother Teresa

  Men, California, Death Row

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• But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent memory... it would be crazy not to consider the fact that it will add as much as $1 billion over the next five years simply to keep the death penalty on the books.

  John Van de Kamp

  Strong, Memories, Crazy

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• The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

  John Hickenlooper

  Football, Issues, Justice

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• The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case). Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off.

  Faxian

  Country, Kings, Cutting

  "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms".

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• It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

  William J. Brennan

  Fate, Echoes, Way

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• Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

  Jay Leno

  Paris, Jail, People

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• It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.

  Richard LaGravenese

  Character, Ideas, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Believe, Talking, People

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• The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual sodomy? Come on. For 200 years, it was criminal in every state.

  Antonin Scalia

  Years, Giving, Abortion

  "Antonin Scalia, 1936-2016: conservative bulwark who resisted ages of change" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  Geert Wilders

  Christian, Islamic, Looks

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Father, Pay The Price, People

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• It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Svengali, Rasputin, Influence

  Interview with Max Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

  Gene Simmons

  Kids, People, Ems

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.

  Barack Obama

  Abortion, Friendly, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Rights, America

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.

  Ernest Gowers

  Heart, Years, People

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• Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?

  John Fugelsang

  Prayer, Gay, Long

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• I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

  Ronald Reagan

  Practice, Skills, Sanctuary

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  Divorce, America, Auras

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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