Quotes About Penalty

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them. If your law exacts a penalty, you must be able to enforce it – on the rich as well as the poor, the people on the Scottish borders and the Welsh marches, the men of Cornwall as well as the men of Sussex and Kent.

There is only one penalty for high treason: for a man, to be hanged, cut down alive and eviscerated, or for a woman, to be burned. The king may vary the sentence to decapitation; only poisoners are boiled alive.

Sin is never free, there's either an up-front cost or an invoice to pay later.

Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Slavery was in fact a legal punishment inflicted on those, for example, who could not pay their fines.

I have found in my life, Rek, that there are a few actions which are unforgivable. And certainly there are no words said that carry such a penalty. It is a man's lot, I fear, to strike out when he has suffered hurt.

The thing about sports, at least for guys, is that nobody ever defines the rules, not even in gym class. Asking what a penalty means is like asking who Jesus was. It's one of those things you're just supposed to know, and if you don't, there's something seriously wrong with you.

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.

A servant who killed his master, a wife who killed her husband, a clergyman who killed his prelate were all guilty of 'petty treason', for which the penalty was death but without the gruesome quartering.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts. Have

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.