Scott Turow Quotes

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

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

This is the one issue [the death penalty] that I have received more advice about than any issue in 35 years of public life…. Whatever I decide, one side or the other will not accept it.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

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

I'm pro-death. I believe in the death penalty. Let's get on with it.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours …. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

His major flaw may be that he is a prisoner of his own convictions…. He refuses to endorse laws with which he disagrees.

I want to see if she is serious about the death penalty.

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.