The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.
In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.