We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.

My father was against the death penalty and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

We march and fight to death or on to victory. Our might is right no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell can still our mighty song.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is at the end of the day the most compelling persuasive and winning argument against a death penalty.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

As men are not able to fight against death misery ignorance they have taken it into their heads in order to be happy not to think of them at all.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

It is possible to provide security against other ills but as far as death is concerned we men live in a city without walls.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

My dad said 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

To show the world what long experience gains requires not courage though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself and to hell with justice.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.