Penal Quotes

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. — Lord Byron
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a… — Charles Spurgeon
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to… — Georges Bernanos
Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important… — Michel Foucault
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance. — Saint Augustine
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system. — William J. Clinton
Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the… — Hans Kung
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose… — William J. Brennan
How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors... — Daniel O'Connell
I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The… — Paul Rudnick
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor… — Hannah Arendt
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion,… — Ludwig von Mises
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . .… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than… — Noah Webster
Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of… — William George Jordan
In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,… — E. M. Forster
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:… — William Strunk, Jr.

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