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" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window. "

" Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "

" Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. "

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes. "

" Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. "

" Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. "

Ernest Hemingway

" The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. "

Robert M. Hutchins

" We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine. "

Matthew Simpson

" Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. "

" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "

Richard LaGravenese

" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "

Blase J. Cupich

" Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. "

Dayananda Saraswati

" We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold. "

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

" Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. "

" Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. "

G. Gordon Liddy

" God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "

" Man dies of cold, not of darkness. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. "

" Inactivity is death. "

Benito Mussolini