Quotes About Justice

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

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.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.

I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.