Penalty Quotes - page 2

[A]lterations in policy had to be made with continual reference to the need to be elected in order to be able to put principles into power. I repeatedly had to reinforce the message that the real penalty for our defeat was paid by the unemployed, the poor, the sick, the young and the old that the Labour Party existed to help. (Neil Kinnock)
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. View quote
N.T. Wright
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment. View quote
Howard Dean
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. View quote
Alan Hansen
[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. View quote
Vanna Bonta
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. View quote
Hesiod
Every age and degree of understanding should have its proper measure of discipline. With regard to boys and adolescents, therefore, or those who cannot understand the seriousness of the penalty of excommunication, whenever such as these are delinquent let them be subjected to severe fasts or brought to terms by harsh beatings, that they may be cured. View quote
Benedict of Nursia
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself - and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. View quote
Chief Joseph
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances. (Charles Babbage)
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
The frame wearied with labours lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled. View quote
Cyprian
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. View quote
Patricia Cornwell
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. View quote
Natalie Wood
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. View quote
Alan Parker
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. View quote
Burke Marshall
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. View quote
George Ryan
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. View quote
Howard Staunton
The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. View quote
Howard Staunton
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. (Janet Reno)
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. View quote
Philip Kaufman
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. View quote
Roger Wicker
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. View quote
Steve Earle
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. View quote
Tim Kaine