Penalty Quotes · Page 6

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

— Lou Brock

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

— Cassandra Danz

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

— Bill Parcells

I know everyone is talking about them like it's easy but you can lose a final with a penalty.

— Bruno Fernandes

“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.”

— Courtney Summers

I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.

— Tie Domi

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

— Hilary Swank

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]…

— Desmond Tutu

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a…

— Gary Johnson

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very…

— Albert Camus

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting…

— Richard Whately

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as…

— Steve Largent

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens…

— Michael Finkel

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,…

— Jonathan Shapiro

An act of Congress could abolish the federal death penalty once and for all, and my sister in service, Representative Ayanna Pressley,…

— Cori Bush

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is…

— Richard Cohen

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe…

— Dalai Lama

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from…

— Tim Murphy

But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal…

— John Van de Kamp

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the…

— Eliot Spitzer

You wouldn't have had to call a penalty on me, I would've called I on myself'. 9. “I'm the sole judge of…

— Ben Hogan

The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it…

— Robert M. Morgenthau

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing…

— Larry Flynt

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

— Amarinder Singh

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

— Nancy Reagan

I am confident when I take the penalty otherwise I would pass for somebody else.

— Bruno Fernandes

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

— Jerry Weller

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

— Anonymous

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

— Anonymous

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

— George Gascon

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

— Bianca Jagger

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified.

— Frank Portman

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

— Bobby Scott

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

— Nancy Reagan

Kids. They're not easy, but there has to be some penalty for having sex.

— Bill Maher

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

— Franz Beckenbauer

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

— Alexandre Dumas-fils

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King