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Here are the quotes with the word penalty in them. 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. — Albert Camus Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. — Pope Benedict XVI

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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.

-Albert Camus

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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

-Ron White

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

-Pope Benedict XVI

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-Joseph Ratzinger

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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

-Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

-Rick Perry

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McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

-Jon Stewart

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

-Brigitte Bardot

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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

-Marquis de Sade

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

-Eliot Spitzer

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

-Dennis Miller

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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

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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

-Nancy Reagan

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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

-Thomas Francis Meagher

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I am against the death penalty.

-Andrew Cuomo

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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

-Andrew Cuomo

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

-Nancy Reagan

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

-Jack Kevorkian

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I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

-Tim Kaine

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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

-Yasser Arafat

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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

-Antonin Scalia

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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

-Bianca Jagger

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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

-Alan Hansen

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

-Albert Einstein

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

-Alfred North Whitehead

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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. — Albert Camus
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. — Pope Benedict XVI

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