As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.

Another quote →

More quotes by Larry Flynt

All Larry Flynt quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Larry Flynt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.