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Quotes About Punitive

As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under existing federal law, none of which have been harsh or punitive, but I think they've been important to really point out a pro-life culture in Arkansas. That's, for me, a good thing.
~ Mike Huckabee
Religious conduct occupies no "forbidden field," but rather stands shoulder-to-shoulder with all other conduct that engenders the same harm. The question was whether the behavior was so reprehensible as to deserve punitive damages. Obviously, a jury thought so.
~ Unknown
First, perhaps most obviously, massive punitive force serves economic elite groups by rendering invisible the wreckage of capitalist modes of exploitation, moving aside what elites view as "social junk.
~ Unknown
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.
~ Unknown
You are both Goddesses of the Stars, no need to get punitive.' 'And yet, "punitive" is what we do so very well.
~ Matt Fraction
The basis of the system is maximum individual freedom and mutual trust between governors and governed. The UN is an authoritarian system, assuming ill intentions of all and holding the threat of punitive action as a means of control.
~ Michael Z. Williamson