Penalties Quotes - Page 24

• It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Ignorance, Issues, People

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

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

  Raymond Pettibon

  Svengali, Rasputin, Death Penalty

  Interview with Max Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Emotional, Peers

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Fire, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the killers of her husband and stepson, she didn't actually pull the trigger herself. You know, she has a point. I think we should let her be able to hire the person who executes her, and not do yourself in! How's that, doll? Yeah! Get it over with quick, maybe Charlize Theron will sign up to play you.

  Dennis Miller

  Husband, Thinking, Virginia

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• Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

  Dennis Miller

  Abortion, Death Penalty, Timing

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• The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

  Danny Glover

  Jail, Death Penalty, Bin Laden

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• Join the club. 
  (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

  Stuart Pearce

  Men, Cities, Cost

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• I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Cousin, Hypocrite, Politics

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2010

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• You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

  Bobby Slayton

  Crazy, America, People

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• The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

  Steve Forbes

  President, Reform, Care

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• Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.

  Terry Venables

  Strong, Character, Player

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• Every manager would like to see a match decided in 90 minutes. Because I don't think there's any way you can prepare for penalty kicks.

  Joachim Low

  Thinking, Way, Minutes

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• The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

  Peter Shilton

  Luck, Stay Calm, Needs

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• Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

  Simon Barnes

  Football, Drama, People

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• When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

  Bobby Jindal

  Law, Enforcement, Individual

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• Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

  Peter McWilliams

  Revenge, Hands, Needs

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reform, Use, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

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• I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.

  Warren Buffett

  Philosophy, Loss, Errors

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• What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Doe, Yardsticks

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• You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Want, Rewards

  "Secrets of Closing the Sale". Book by Zig Ziglar, 1982.

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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  Justice, United States, Racist

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• I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

  John Waters

  Years, Death Penalty, Crime

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.210, Vintage

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