Punishable Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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Instrument flying is an unnatural act probably punishable by God.
— Gordon Baxter
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing…
— L. Neil Smith
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Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals,…
— David R. Brower
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was…
— Hugh Laurie
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There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger…
— Bill Engvall
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Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death.…
— Emil Fackenheim
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Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and…
— Jay H. Lehr
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Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.
— Ali Gomaa
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
— George Orwell
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In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a…
— Mike Harding
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If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s…
— Ulrike Meinhof
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It is the responsibility of people like me and people who believe in the true Islam to stand up and say, that blasphemy is not…
— Pamela Geller
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Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
— Steven Morrissey
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This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
— Susanna Clarke
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Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and…
— E. M. Forster
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Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Will's face turned grave. "Be careful with it, though. It's six hundred years old and the only copy of its kind. Losing or damaging it…
— Cassandra Clare
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Just remember, stealing's punishable by death
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Punishable Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Punishable Quotes as follows: