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Quotes About Penalty

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.
~ Bobby Orr
A criminal history was like a credit card with interest—so what if you paid off the balance, the interest still kept accruing. And accruing and accruing and accruing.
~ Susan Burton
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
~ Jeff Greenfield
Sometimes you sit in a cell and don't deserve it, Mr. Harding. Sometime it's the other way around
~ Mitch Albom
This perception of fairness—that one set of rules applies to players big and small—has been entirely missing from our collective responses to climate change thus far. For decades, regular people have been asked to turn off their lights, put on sweaters, and pay premium prices for nontoxic cleaning products and renewable energy—and then watched as the biggest polluters have been allowed to expand their emissions without penalty.
~ Naomi Klein
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination." Crawford
~ Thomas Harris
I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.
~ bush george w
In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty years. In Georgia such a "crime against nature" could lead a practitioner to life imprisonment at hard labor- a penalty far more severe than having sex with animals, which in Georgia was punishable by only five years.
~ Gay Talese
the swallowing up of death in victory, and death is here pointedly named as the penalty for sin imposed by the Law, so that the resurrection is the final removal of the condemnation of sin.
~ Geerhardus Vos
until the interview with the Prince Ibn Rushd was unaware of his favourable interest in philosophy, and feared some harsh penalty if he himself were known to be occupied in such a study.
~ George F. Hourani
cayó la ceniza como coronación del castigo
~ Isabel Allende
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
~ Anthony Powell
All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.
~ Jeremy Bentham
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
~ Remy de Gourmont
It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
~ Calvin Coolidge
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
~ Hesiod
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
~ Matt Taibbi
You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.
~ Gene Simmons
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.
~ Gene Simmons
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
~ Mark Haddon, The Red House
Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb