Penalties Quotes - Page 25

• I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Issues, Buttons

  Source: medium.com

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• I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.

  Troy King

  Years, Safe, Next Year

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• The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Cutting, Membership, Common Experience

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• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Weight, Death Penalty, Opinion

  United States Supreme Court, Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, (2005), No. 03-633, IV, caselaw.findlaw.com. March 1, 2005.

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• 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.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Boys, Should Have, Discipline

  Benedict Of Nursia (2015). “St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries”, p.30, Benedict Of Nursia

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• How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers.

  Jesse Ventura

  Mean, Thinking, Punishment

  "I Ain't Got Time To Bleed". Book by Jesse Ventura, 1999.

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• True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Hate, Grief, Mercy Of God

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.

  Danny Glover

  Race, Texas, People

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• Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Swings, Waiting

  Forbes magazine Interview, November 01, 1974.

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• Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Witty

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Blessing, Giving

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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• The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

  Karl Kraus

  Crime, Commit

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Christian, Doctors, Death Penalty

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• Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

  Sivananda

  Fame

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• In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

  Joseph Stalin

  Law, Death Penalty, Liable

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Punishment, May

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• It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

  George Will

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• The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Black, Higher, Greater

  "A Note on the Theory of the Black Market" by Kenneth E. Boulding in "The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science", Volume 13, No. 1 (pp. 115-118), www.jstor.org. February 1947.

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• Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Regret, Plato

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.56, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Viruses, Growing

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.155, Holt Paperbacks

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• Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

  Al Gore

  Real, Fate, Challenges

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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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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