Penalties Quotes · Page 2

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

— R.J. Rushdoony

Remember, the death penalty is murder.

— Robert Drew

Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]

— Christian Karembeu

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

— Dean Smith

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

— Jock Stein

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

— George W. Bush

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

— Patricia Cornwell

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

— Lionel Strachey

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

— Jurgen Klopp

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

— Rob McKenna

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

— Edward Abbey

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people…

— John Morrison

We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's…

— Susan Sarandon

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

— Brigham Young

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved…

— Antoinette Bosco

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.…

— Joseph Stalin

The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the…

— John McLaughlin

The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged…

— Greg Zoeller

Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child…

— Thomas Huxley

I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never…

— Perfume Genius

I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort…

— Bill Maher

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of…

— Cardinal Richelieu

No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is…

— Henry David Thoreau

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since…

— Warren Farrell

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge…

— Albert Pierrepoint

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion…

— Margaret Fuller

I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put…

— Arthur Koestler

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Lukewarm people give money to charity and to the church...so long as it doesn't impinge on their standard of living. Lukewarm people…

— Francis Chan

A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be…

— Richard E. Byrd

The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and…

— Pope Leo XIII

Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are…

— Thomas Sowell

Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with…

— Seth Klarman

The gospel is saying that, what man cannot do in order to be accepted with God, this God Himself has done for…

— Graeme Goldsworthy