Pope Francis Quotes

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

There is always a political issue whenever you empower a state to kill its own citizens … the abuse of the power as in Europe of the 20th century is the problem …. If we believe that some people ought to receive the death penalty for their crimes, there appears to be no way of executing the ones who should receive the death penalty without sweeping in ones who do not.

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

President Obama continues to support war. He continues to remove many basic civil liberties and human rights. He continues to condone drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan that kill women and children. He meets with his advisers every Tuesday morning and signs extrajudicial killings. To me, those are not the actions of a peace person.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

War is death's feast.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

I supported the war in Afghanistan because 3000 of our people were murdered and I thought we had a right to defend the people of the United States.

In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.

We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.