“The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesMarkMurderEnormousCain Author:Eric Schlosser
“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.” YearsSaidStatesNextUnitedUnited StatesStudySafeMurderCriminalsViolentExecutionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyNext YearAlabamaViolent Criminals Author:Troy King
“A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.” PeopleMenYearsHumansStatesHuman BeingsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesVoteIncreaseMurderAssumingBurdenDebt Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.” MenWellsStatesMightAgeEnemyHellCivilizationDevilMurderFascismCultArchesOrganised Author:Marcus Garvey
“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.” SometimesStatesWould BeConsciousnessToo MuchGenerationsAmbitionMurderObjectivesJournalistNovelistsHeight1960sEmbarrassmentDrankCommonplaceBourgeoisMy GenerationAvant GardeStates Of ConsciousnessCarnivals Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindStatesAcceptingDangerMurderPunishmentBureaucracyHumaneSanitary Author:Jerry Brown