Severe Punishment Quotes
- 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
- God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe… — Giacomo Casanova
- Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. — Chanakya
- The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the… — William J. Brennan
- Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the… — Saint Basil