“ [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 are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The… Helen Prejean
“ The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to. Anton Chekhov
“ If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. Steve Allen
“ Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? Victor Hugo
“ But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty wou… Albert Camus
“ God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The fir… Victor Hugo
“ In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. Christopher Hitchens
“ I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant. S.A. Tawks
“ The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-rankin… Ernst Jünger
“ I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or AIDS because, as the work not of nature but of ma… Milan Kundera
“ Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country. S.A. Tawks
“ For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremos… Oscar Wilde
“ The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent. Joel Norris
“ The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. Yevgeny Zamyatin
“ Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tóti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tóti: "Yes. Tóti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and… Hannah Kent
“ There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. Friedrich Nietzsche
