Death Sentence Quotes

• Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Disease, Patient

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

  William J. Clinton

  Fighting, Medicine, Hiv

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• After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

  Ron Paul

  Mistake, Years, Government

  "Can Ron Paul and Conservative Evangelicals Save a Texas Death-Row Inmate?" by Stephanie Mencimer, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2014.

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Age, Sentences

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• The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

  Nelson Mandela

  Animal, Reflection, Death Penalty

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• My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Mother, Gay, Sentences

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Thinking, Church Growth

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Light, Risk, Prejudice

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• Life as we know it is a death sentence.

  Joseph Curiale

  Life, Sentences, Knows

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• Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

  Gil Garcetti

  Dollars, Law Enforcement, Crime

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• It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Father, Son, Years

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• The death sentence is a barbaric act.

  Nelson Mandela

  Death Penalty, Sentences, Barbaric

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• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Death, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.67, Verso

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• I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.

  Laura Linney

  Cancer, Grandmother, Thinking

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• The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

  Evelyn Waugh

  Suspense, Lips, Hunger

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• Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Real, Dark

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• I have the death sentence in seven genres.

  Jasper Fforde

  Seven, Genre, Sentences

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Fate, Men, Hands

  The Mint (1955) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Being Different, Arms, Prove

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. They will be looking for some sign that their battles have not been in vain. If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me…but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Giving, Battle

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• Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise!

  Maria V. Snyder

  Order, Promise, Sentences

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• There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

  Julius Streicher

  Travel, Russia, World

  "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 50), 1997.

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• Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Stay Strong, Cancer, Treatment

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• A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Life, Sentences

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