Penalties Quotes - Page 16

• The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Different, Ministry

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't recommend that people speak their minds to their bosses or to somebody who's directly over them. You need to know when to speak your mind and what the penalty will be for doing so. Sometimes it's worth it, and often it's not!

  Albert Ellis

  Speak Your Mind, People, Boss

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

  Susan Sarandon

  Iraq, People, Death Penalty

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just to understand what your government is doing and how much they are spending.

  Susan Sarandon

  Government, Color, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they never had before. They are succeeding - they have succeeded in interfering with our election, and we know that they continue that in the French elections and other elections. And so far they have paid a little or no penalty for all of this misbehavior.

  John McCain

  Ukraine, Middle East, Littles

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

  Shane Claiborne

  Death Penalty, Excited

  Source: medium.com

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• I don’t know why Glenn Murray took the penalty. I suppose because he is our penalty taker.

  Gus Poyet

  Knows

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• I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

  George W. Bush

  Revenge, Thinking, People

  George W. Bush at the third Presidential Debate, abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

  V. R. Krishna Iyer

  Dog, Blow, Blood

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• Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Rewards, Obstinacy

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.101, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• 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.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Escaping, Law, Thieves

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.65, M.E. Sharpe

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• Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

  Jerzy Dudek

  Kissing, Thinking, Player

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• According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Guy, Want

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• I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

  Rick Santorum

  Support, Death Penalty

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

  Troy King

  Alabama, Death Penalty, Lost

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• The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.

  Peter Agre

  Medicine, Issues, People

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Jealousy, Dread

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• Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Long, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.43

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• Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

  William James

  Reality, Frustration, Ideas

  William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Doors, Class

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• Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?

  John Fugelsang

  Prayer, Gay, Long

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  Divorce, America, Auras

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.

  Artur Davis

  Class, Saving, Able

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• Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

  Nelson Goodman

  Confusion, Effort, Obscurity

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

  Michael Baden

  Mistake, Upset, Way

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