Penalties Quotes

409 Penalties quotes by 299 unique authors

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. — Kin Hubbard
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. — Bianca Jagger
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a… — Daniel Kahneman
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime… — Thomas Francis Meagher
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the… — H. L. Mencken
I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s.… — Michael Moore
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We… — Michael Moore
Staying out of the penalty box will really help. — Bobby Orr
A penalty is a cowardly way to score. — Unknown Author
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support… — Rick Perry
The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private… — Anna Quindlen
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. — Marquis de Sade
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade… — Antonin Scalia
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists,… — Stacy Schiff
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of… — Eliot Spitzer
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. — Jon Stewart
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about… — Matt Taibbi
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order… — Jesse Ventura
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism… — Alfred North Whitehead

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