Penalties Quotes

• Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

  Loretta Young

  Worthwhile, Wanted, Values

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• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Punishment

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

  Kin Hubbard

  Appearance, Being Pretty, Suspicion

  "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

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• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

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  The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Attributed in "Einstein: The Life and Times" by Ronald W. Clark, (p. 737), 1971.

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• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

  Albert Camus

  Punishment, Death Penalty, Murder

  "Reflections on the Guillotine". Book by Albert Camus, 1957.

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• 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

  People, Locks, Favors

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• 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.

  Steve Earle

  Government, Ideas, Democracy

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• Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

  Angela Davis

  America, Slavery, Death Penalty

  "We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty" by Diann Rust-Tierney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2009.

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• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Doe, Firsts, Death Penalty

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• Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  George Ryan

  Illinois, Arbitrary, Death Penalty

  "Illinois Death Row Emptied". www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2003.

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• The death penalty experiment has failed.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Death Penalty, Human Rights, Experiments

  "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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

  Nancy Reagan

  Death, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Burke Marshall

  Thinking, Law, Justice

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Hockey

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• Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Winning, Best Effort, Justice

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Plato, Death Penalty, Philosopher

  "Years of Minutes"‎ by Andy Rooney, (p. 332), 2004.

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• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Russell Pearce

  Silly, Agreement, Promise

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• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Religious, Divine, Members

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

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• I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.

  William Shirley

  Law, Enemy, Arms

  William Shirley, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (1973). “Correspondence of William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts and military commander in America, 1731-1760”

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

  Elia Kazan

  Business, Decision, Way

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

  "10 Ways to Blow a Death Penalty Case" by Marc Bookman, www.motherjones.com. April 22, 2014.

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• No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

  Clarence Darrow

  Helping, Fierce, Offense

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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