Quotes & Sayings About Death Penalty Should Be Abolished

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety. — Edward Gibbon

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot

In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist
but I found I had nothing to say. — Victor Borge

Helen's modest. She wanted to dress herself," Ariadne said, drizzling honey over a bowl of oatmeal and putting it down in front of Helen.
"Modest? Sure she is," Hector said sarcastically as he passed Lucas the bacon.
"That was YOUR SISTER'S nightgown, wasn't it?" Lucas asked without skipping a beat as he served Helen and himself.
Hector wisely shut his mouth.
"Yeah," Ariadne replied for him, not getting it. "So comfortable! What? What are you all laughing at? — Josephine Angelini

I had been pushed as far as I could stand — Rosa Parks

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. — Pope John Paul II

Here's the latest from the Pentagon
the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News. — Jay Leno

Generally speaking, a web of great mystification has been woven around time. Above all, the mystification about the ostensible objectivity of time. Utter nonsense. Time is a completely subjective matter, but every person is not a subject, and that is the problem. Timepieces are perhaps exact, but time is not, time is a matter of personality, or even of affinity. — Svetislav Basara

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished. — Jack Kemp

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions - only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ...
This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk. — Emil Cioran

Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change. — Ramez Naam

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that. — Brad Thor

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. — Angela Davis

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. — Kevin Kelly