Top 22 Penal Law Quotes
#1. Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
#2. Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
George Bernard Shaw
#3. Penal law was not created by the common people, nor by the peasantry, nor by the proletariat, but entirely by the bourgeoisie as an important tactical weapon in this system of divisions which they wished to introduce.
Michel Foucault
#4. Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.
Kate Millett
#5. It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.
Richard Dawkins
#6. She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that's what love is - a total contradiction that somehow balances out.
Tammara Webber
#7. I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
Roger Mahony
#8. To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
Tom Vilsack
#9. The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
Edward Jenks
#10. If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Dwayne Johnson
#11. Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#12. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
#13. Situations and Circumstances do not make us unless we let them. Our thoughts and feelings are the music of our soul.
Matthew Donnelly
#14. I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.
Peter Jackson
#15. Don't speculate unless you can make it a full time job.
Bernard Baruch
#16. Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
#18. Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.
E.L. Konigsburg
#19. I'm going and I'm not going to die. I'm going to prove to you that you're not the only one who survives.
Robert Kirkman
#20. How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors ...
Daniel O'Connell
#21. Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
Saint Augustine
#22. We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.
Roland Martin
