Penalties Quotes · Page 5

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

— Ted Lindsay

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

— Bobby Orr

I am against the death penalty.

— Andrew Cuomo

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

— Edward Gibbon

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

— George Gascon

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

— Ray Krone

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

— Plato

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

— Dodie Smith

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

— Alfred Sutro

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

— Rudy Giuliani

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is…

— Ujjwal Nikam

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death…

— Janeane Garofalo

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed…

— Henry David Thoreau

The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of…

— Woody Hayes

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how…

— Anonymous

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and…

— Jay Sekulow

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a…

— Mike Fitzpatrick

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know…

— Calvin Coolidge

To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If…

— Leon Morris

Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was…

— Declan Lynch

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well…

— Ben Moreell

I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies…

— Troy King

Look, therefore, which way we will, whether at the direct Scriptural statements of death as the penalty of sin, or at the…

— Herrick Johnson

It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure…

— Wendell Berry

I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that…

— Branch Rickey

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against…

— Ralph Nader

Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder…

— John Diefenbaker

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.…

— Wendell Phillips

At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

— John Stott

Whenever we have penalties and take a 10-yard penalty down the red zone, it gets tough.

— Ryan Tannehill

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

— George Will

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

— Joycelyn Elders

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

— Gus Poyet

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

— Seneca the Younger

Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful.

— Matt Kenseth

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

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton