"Murder and capital punishment are not opposites..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
“In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.”
“We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.”
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“We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
“Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.”
“Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.”