The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
BAN KI-MOONAppearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
BAYARD TAYLOR -
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
BUFFALO BILL -
I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We’ve never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.
BO DEREK -
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
ANDY STANLEY -
At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
JACK KORNFIELD -
I believe Bengal is a part of India.
YOGI ADITYANATH -
You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
BILLIE JEAN KING -
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine, maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements.
GILBERT RYLE -
[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD -
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER -
Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
JOHN BERGER -
In this sacred Dispensation conflict and contention are in no wise permitted.
ABDU'L-BAHA -
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.
CORNEL WEST -
Waiting is a huge part of being a refugee. You’re waiting at borders to get across. You’re waiting for transportation.
ALAN GRATZ -
One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
BENJAMIN TUCKER