Quotes
Authors
Peter Moskos

"I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners."

-- Peter Moskos

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I doubt if many of my contemporaries, especially the older ones, did many exercises. I have often tried to picture (Godfrey) Evans and (Denis) Compton doing press-ups in the out field before the days play, but so far have failed miserably.”
“I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.”
“As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.”

Source : "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.
“When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.”
“Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.”
“Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.”
“Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.”
“Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you donâ€™t take a hard look at risk, it will take you.”

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