Viking Proverb Quotes

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.

The old fool has taken more lives in that naked country than I have taken for the murder of my father.

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

If a man destroy the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

You should have died when I killed you.

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.