Quotes About Justice

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.

Violence and war lead only to death.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Quizá lo hayas olvidado, pero ni siquiera en Nuremberg sentenciaron a todo el mundo a morir.