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Quotes About Penalty

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
~ John Grisham
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
~ Saint Augustine
For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are eventually exonerated number in the hundreds, if not thousands, we can not call it a moral system.
~ S.E. Cupp
We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The fact that on the day I came back to City we stayed in the UEFA Cup through a last-minute own goal against Midtjylland and then won a dramatic penalty shoot-out made me smile.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
~ Bobby Orr
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
~ Thomas Francis Meagher
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
The legends of the Fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts, as all advanced occultists know. The striving for selfish power on the Spiritual Planes inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back as far as it had previously risen. But to even such a soul, the opportunity of a return is given — and such souls make the return journey, paying the terrible penalty according to the invariable Law.
~ Three Initiates
Sometimes, we get numb to the fact that people get sent away. We don't see where they are; we say they are 'doing time,' and you really don't know what that is.
~ Malcolm Jenkins
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, said Citizen. Oh my, said Rigg. They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
~ Orson Scott Card
H]is 'philosophy' seemed to consist of anything that would be particularly annoying to the powers that be without being so shocking that they would fire him. He got the reputation among the students as an original and a rebel without having to pay the penalty for actually being either.
~ Orson Scott Card
And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
~ Orson Scott Card
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
~ Cory Doctorow
Traditions decay when the reality facing the new generation changes. The habit of thrift decays if there is no penalty for not saving. The work ethic decays if there is no penalty for not working. Neighborliness
~ Charles Murray
Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.
~ Charles Stross
Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
~ H. L. Mencken
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
~ Happy Gilmore
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
~ Lawrence Lessig
Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.
~ Lemony Snicket
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.
~ Antonin Scalia
Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.
~ Michael J. Knowles