Penalty Quotes · Page 4

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

— Gus Poyet

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

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

That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.

— Rob McCaffrey

He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse

— Angus Loughran

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“I’m not a ref, but I assigned her the penalty of clipping, and I told her to drop the scissors and step…

— Jarod Kintz

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty…

— Michael Wilbon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to…

— Gene Weingarten

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

— Thomas Tuchel

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

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach…

— Jay Leno

I grew up in pubs so my whole thing is 'the game happened,' people would go into the pub afterwards and discuss…

— Troy Deeney

I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is -…

— Alan Lewis

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

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been…

— Ramsey Clark

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

— Thurgood Marshall

Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every…

— Cynthia Kenyon

Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime…

— John Shadegg

I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness…

— Tani Cantil-Sakauye

You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.

— Ron Atkinson

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

— George Ryan

“The penalty for procrastination is the loss of hopes and dreams.”

— Tai Lopez

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

— William Feather

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

— Gary Bauer

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

— Vanna Bonta

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

— Lionel Jospin

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

— Jack Kemp

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

— Ron White

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

— Nancy Reagan

“Life is sometimes like knockout football; if you have no goal, invite penalty!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

— Kate Brown

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

— Bill Maher

“Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical”

— Donna Tartt