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" Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. "

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" I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. "

" Normality is death. "

" The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. "

" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "

" I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon. "

" Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. "

" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

Albert Einstein

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

" The goal of all life is death. "

" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

" It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death. "

" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "

" As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations. "

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud. "

" Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

" I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death. "

Watkin Tudor Jones

" I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. "

" Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. "

" One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax. "

" At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. "

" 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

" I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. "

Cedric Richmond

" 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.' "