Charlize Theron Quotes

Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

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

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Punishment should have a redemptive quality to it.

If I had had the slightest doubt, I certainly would not have imposed the death penalty.

Having fully expressed our conviction that the punishment of death is one which should sometimes be inflicted, we may add that we would have it resorted to as unfrequently as possible.

The death penalty serves social justice.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

Proposals to abolish the death penalty demnstrate an effeminacy in the general mind of the country.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

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.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

I am against the death penalty.

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

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.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

The state is not the agent of mercy or charity, but is the instrument of God's vengeance against those who disturb the public peace through theft, violence, or negligence. To the state belongs the power of the sword, which consists of the right to execute those who are worthy of death, to inflict corporal punishment, and to require restitution to the victims of theft and bodily injury.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murders.