I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.