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 did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.
We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
