Against Capital Punishment Quotes

#1. I didn't want it to have any technical virtuosity; I wanted it to just be really clear how it was made. For my work in general, it's always really clear how it is made.

Josh Smith

#2. I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

#3. At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

Scott Turow

#4. Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#5. Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

#6. Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. Fear can be created quickly; trust can't.

Ed Catmull

#8. Ah, Ireland ... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Chuck Daly

#10. It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree ... I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

Albert Pierrepoint

#11. Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

Vidya Balan

#12. Plain and simple, I hope, in a fairy tale way: in fairy tales it is often the humble to whom magic is revealed.

Kate Bernheimer

#13. We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#14. I missed you every minute this week and I don't want to spend another day without you. If my mom disowns me for being with a vampire, then that's her decision, but I've made mine, and I won't apologize of back down from it.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Shannon Miller

#16. That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

Scott Turow

#17. Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

George W. Bush

#19. The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

David Whitehouse

#20. Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

Ann Brashares