Penalty Quotes

My career record was 5-2 in penalty shootouts.

— Edwin van der Sar

“The penalty for thinking was death.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

Law without penalty is only advise.

— Adrian Rogers

The death penalty experiment has failed.

— Harry A. Blackmun

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

— Ovid

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

— Chief Joseph

Anyone can miss a penalty.

— Jude Bellingham

Three words: Marriage Tax Penalty.

— Anonymous

“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

— Agatha Christie

It doesn't matter who takes the penalty as long as the team scores.

— Bruno Fernandes

Only those who have the courage to take a penalty miss them.

— Roberto Baggio

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

— Jerry Brown

“hit with $9B penalty By Kevin, Johnson and, Kevin McCoy | 300 words”

— Anonymous

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

— Jeb Bush

If there is a chance to ever take a penalty I am going to ask the manager and I would do it!

— Ederson

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

— Jeff Van Gundy

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

— Bryan Stevenson

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

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Desmond Tutu

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

— John Morrison

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

— Burt Prelutsky

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

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say…

— Desmond Tutu

“Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution -- the harshest penalty possible? Or…

— Edward Humes

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one…

— Dinesh D'Souza

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the…

— Clint Smith

Penalty kicks are so much about confidence and your mentality going into them. If you go walk up to a kick and…

— Julie Foudy

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as…

— Howard Dean

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

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

“Executing Ted Bundy cost the state of Florida seven or eight million dollars, money that could have been better invested in building…

— Gary Lequipe

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States,…

— John Douglas

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA…

— Al Gore

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…

— Thurgood Marshall

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for…

— Peter Moskos

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

“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like…

— Helen Prejean