Helen Prejean Quotes

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

I don't believe in murder.

It's wrong to kill.

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for

Is it right for us, as a society, to do a thing – hang a man – which none of us individually would be prepared to do or even witness? The answer is 'no, not in a civilized society

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.