Cruel Punishment Quotes

#1. If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Antonin Scalia

#2. People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.

Richard Paul Evans

#3. Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.

Martha Manning

#4. Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death.

Khaddam Ahmed Khan

#5. Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Isaac Barrow

#6. There is nothing wrong with people that reasoning with them won't aggravate!

Sam Horn

#7. The Constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment," I told him when he
stepped down from the podium.
"What?" he innocently asked. "Getting you out of the library? I believe it's
due time, Sentinel."
"Now that I'm a real, live vampire?"
"Something like that,

Chloe Neill

#8. Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Desiderius Erasmus

#9. We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.

Robert Kroetsch

#10. He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause.

Terry Pratchett

#11. It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

Clarence Darrow

#12. was determined to be 'cruel and unusual punishment'. He

T.C. Barnes

#13. I'd forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" seemed too close to home at the mo-ment.
"Culture Club?" Now his mouth curled downward. "And you accuse me of practicing cruel and unusual punishment.

Jeaniene Frost

#14. I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

Eoin Colfer

#15. In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Muriel Rukeyser

#16. Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.

John H Richardson

#17. The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment."

Joseph Farah

#18. From the dawn of time to the end of time, the world would never run short of cold, cold hearts.

Tami Hoag

#19. My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#20. We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

Leon Panetta

#21. By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

Oliver Stone

#22. HAZEL WAS AN EXPERT ON WEIRD. She'd seen her mother possessed by an earth goddess. She'd created a giant out of gold. She'd destroyed an island, died, and come back from the Underworld. But getting kidnapped by a field of grass? That was new. She

Rick Riordan

#23. Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over..
The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass by thee must past thee by.

Denver Moore

#24. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

Anton Chekhov

#25. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#26. Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

Arlen Specter

#27. Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

LeBron James

#28. It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Antonin Scalia

#29. Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

Zygmunt Bauman

#30. In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

Joe Rogan

#31. Ideas do not need weapons.

Fidel Castro