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Quotes About Penalty

provérbio de Sêneca no Tratado sobre a clemência a respeito do efeito reverso das punições. Ele escreveu: "O castigo repetido, enquanto esmaga o ódio de alguns, incita o ódio de todos […] assim como as árvores que foram podadas fazem brotar novamente incontáveis galhos". Pois
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He paid no price for the mistake.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no penalty for opinion makers who harm society.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Can be generalized to politics, anything where the penalty is weak and the victims are abstract and distributed (say taxpayers or shareholders).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.
~ Charles Stross
The maximum sentence was twenty years for each free phone call. Twenty years for each call! I was facing a worst-case scenario of 460 years.
~ Kevin D. Mitnick
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.
~ W. S. Gilbert
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
~ Lady Nancy Astor
We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
~ Barry McCaffrey
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.
~ Claude McKay
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."
~ David Shore
The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
~ Peter Shilton
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
~ Queen Victoria
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
~ Jerry Weller
Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries!
~ Wayne Campbell
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
~ Voltaire
Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.
~ Pierre Trudeau
the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42
~ Niall Ferguson
Dans cette vie importante il y a deux phases principales : avant la chute, après la chute ; et, sous ces deux phases, deux questions : question de l'éducation, question de la pénalité ; et, entre ces deux questions, la société tout entière.
~ Victor Hugo
One may feel a certain indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with one's own eyes: but if one encounters one of them, the shock is violent; one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some
~ Victor Hugo
the galleys make the convict what he is; reflect upon that, if you please.
~ Victor Hugo
O viaggio implacabile della società umana! O perdite di uomini e di anime lungo il cammino! Oceano nel quale cade tutto ciò che la legge lascia cadere! Funesto allontanarsi di ogni soccorso! O morte mortale! Il mare è l'inesorabile notte sociale dove la pena getta i suoi dannati. Il mare è l'immensa miseria. L'anima, alla deriva tra quei gorghi, può divenire cadavere. Chi la resusciterà?
~ Victor Hugo