Penalties Quotes · Page 6

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

— Ray Krone

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

— George Gascon

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

— Plato

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

— Alan Parker

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

— Edward Gibbon

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

— Zakir Naik

a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.

— Dodie Smith

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

— Margaret Cho

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death…

— Zakir Naik

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were…

— Steven Gerrard

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and…

— George W. Bush

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment…

— Thurgood Marshall

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty…

— Dalai Lama

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay…

— John McCain

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug…

— Charles Schumer

A football match should never be settled with the horror of penalties. I don't see that as a valid result. For me,…

— Tite

God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are…

— John Ruskin

She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing…

— Saint Basil

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the…

— Brigham Young

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack…

— Peter Agre

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit…

— Henry David Thoreau

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to…

— Thomas Sowell

Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the…

— Brent L. Top

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

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

— Karl Kraus

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

— Desmond Tutu

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

— Bryan Stevenson

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

— Natalie Wood

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

— Charles Spurgeon

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

— Jeb Bush

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

— Jeff Van Gundy

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

— Theodore Kaczynski

When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.

— Sepp Blatter

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

— Burt Prelutsky

The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.

— Lionel Strachey

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

— Ed Koch

We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.

— Jurgen Klinsmann

I didn't take many penalties but I never missed one. You just need to stick to your plan.

— Jurgen Klopp