Abolition Of The Death Penalty Quotes

#1. I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Albert Einstein

#2. The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Desmond Tutu

#3. Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Neil Gaiman

#4. You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

Janis Joplin

#5. Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them

Ibn Ata Allah

#6. I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Desmond Tutu

#7. I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I'll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I'll turn into a shadowy static that's barely there, if you just listen hard enough.

Jasmine Warga

#8. There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Margaret Oliphant

#9. War is nothing but a microcosm of peace ... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it ... for good or bad reasons.

Zainab Salbi

#10. I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing

#11. My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It's

Suzanne Collins

#12. Are you flirting with me?

Meg Cabot

#13. You believe the sun will reappear after a stormy day, so why is it so hard to believe, you'll experience happiness after every heartache.

Nikki Rowe

#14. 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Marquis De Sade

#15. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.

Toni Morrison