Penalties Quotes

409 Penalties quotes by 299 unique authors

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and… — William James
There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class… — Jay Leno
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never… — John Fugelsang
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… — Anthony Burgess
Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of… — Artur Davis
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is… — Nelson Goodman
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with… — Michael Baden
She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed… — Saint Basil
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide. — Saint Basil
We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will… — Theodore Roosevelt
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national… — Theodore Roosevelt
Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes… — Brigham Young
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of… — Jimmy Carter
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are… — Jimmy Carter
I support the death penalty and will continue to do that. — Rick Santorum
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never… — John Grisham
I am against the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the… — Andrew Cuomo
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. — Angela Davis
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a… — Angela Davis
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and… — Steve Earle
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we… — Albert Einstein
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. — Alan Hansen
The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. — Christopher Hitchens

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