Jimmy Carter Quotes

There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.

Jimmy Carter

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• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.

  

  Rand Paul
  • You
  • Consequences
  • Injustice

• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Band
  • Years

• I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

  

  Mark Lazarevich Levi
  • People

• Well, hello, Peter,” said Lupin pleasantly, as though rats frequently erupted into old school friends around him. “Long time, no see.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Financial

• Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Transcends

• There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • World
  • Lunatics

• Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Time
  • Person
  • Needed

• Rand studied him and then nodded as if he understood. “Preacher was a force to be reckoned with, but there comes a time when who we were no longer fits who we’ve become.”

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Studied
  • Preacher
  • Fits

• People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.

  

  Steve Wynn
  • Society
  • Jobs
  • Benefits

• Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

  

  Hafez Ibrahim
  • Life
  • Death
  • Rights

• When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Love Is
  • Poets
  • Crimes

• I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Crimes
  • Death Penalty