I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.
The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit.
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.
Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
