Top 100 Quotes About Penalties
#1. I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.
Rick Santorum
#2. I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#3. That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!
Jeff Van Gundy
#5. The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.
James T. Walsh
#6. That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it.
Rob McCaffrey
#7. Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.
Conrad Black
#8. It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.
George Will
#10. Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.
William S. Burroughs
#11. There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.
Michael Owen
#12. Human needs rules and penalties.
Lessons require heroes and villains.
Ignore them, then welcome to the jungle.
Toba Beta
#13. Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.
Anthony Trollope
#14. There are very severe penalties for being a bad student but no penalties at all for being a bad teacher." The
John Holt
#15. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
Jock Stein
#16. It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Yitzhak Rabin
#17. A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
Dodie Smith
#18. Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#20. Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George
#21. The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#22. Among other harsh penalties, the legislation included mandatory minimum sentences for the distribution of cocaine, including far more severe punishment for distribution of crack - associated with blacks - than powder cocaine, associated with whites.
Michelle Alexander
#23. We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.
Kevin Drum
#24. We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of pretending not to be mad.
Ernest Becker
#25. Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
Winston Churchill
#26. Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.
Loretta Young
#27. The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.
Epicurus
#28. We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
Michael McCaul
#29. Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?
Laurent Blanc
#30. In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.
Roy Barnes
#31. In the U.S. and all major countries, there are severe penalties for possessing and/or disclosing classified documents to anyone unauthorized to view these.
Michael E. Salla
#32. In 'Alpha Protocol,' right from the outset, the parameters of the game explain to you that the mission needs to get done. How you approach that is your decision. The rewards and penalties for either path, those are going to balance out into different consequences.
Chris Avellone
#33. The penalties for being an accessory to the attempt to flee the [GDR] were greater than the crime of trying to flee itself.
Anna Funder
#34. It requires heavy-duty interventions: sweeping bans on polluting activities, deep subsidies for green alternatives, pricey penalties for violations, new taxes, new public works programs, reversals of privatizations - the list of ideological outrages goes on and
Naomi Klein
#35. The death penalty makes us all murderers.
Dean Smith
#36. Are you aware of the penalties reserved for freethinkers? I could send you to the block. Good.
Judith Merkle Riley
#37. One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
#38. I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
Alan Shearer
#39. The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
Bob Butterworth
#41. There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.
Rick Tocchet
#42. That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro
#43. Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#45. Was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
Charlotte Bronte
#46. It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
John Locke
#47. But the work had told upon the Editor. Work of that sort carries its penalties with it. Success means absorption, and absorption spells softening of the brain.
P.G. Wodehouse
#48. The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.
Robert Graves
#49. I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
William Shirley
#50. Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide when he dies?
Masta Killa
#51. Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
Simon Barnes
#52. You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area ...
Ron Atkinson
#53. The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.
Cassandra Danz
#54. It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#55. I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...
Desmond Tutu
#56. No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Clarence Darrow
#57. I could give 48 penalties in every match if I wanted to. It is a question of sometimes choosing what is - in your own mind - of material importance and what isn't, what might be a crucial potential penalty and what might not be.
Alan Lewis
#58. If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles B. Rangel
#59. In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
Eleanor Farjeon
#60. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.
Zig Ziglar
#61. The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
#63. What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
Elia Kazan
#64. 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 year later people won't remember them.
Daniel Kahneman
#65. The negative penalties of the Old Testament case laws were not harsh but just, not a threat to society but rather the necessary judicial foundation of civic freedom ... the Old Testament was harsh on criminals because it was soft on victims.
Gary North
#66. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.
Harry A. Blackmun
#67. The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
Abraham Myerson
#68. Recognition in front of peers is the strongest motivator, and berating team members in private or public is the biggest demotivator. Check your use of rewards vs. penalties, with the negatives including emotional outbursts at no one in particular, a lack of feedback and veiled threats.
Martin Zwilling
#69. penalties involved. "The president of the Guild was away in
Raymond Strait
#70. The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#71. If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.
Henry Longhurst
#72. TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.
Alexandra York
#74. In North Korea the only laws that truly matter, and for which extreme penalties are imposed if they are broken, touch on loyalty to the Kim dynasty.
Hyeonseo Lee
#75. Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
William Gilmore Simms
#77. Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes.
Frank Caplan
#78. I would rather sustain the penalties resulting from over-conservatism than face the consequences of error, perhaps with permanent capital loss, resulting from the adoption of "New Era" philosophy where trees really do grow to the sky.
Warren Buffett
#79. The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
Joanne Greenberg
#80. That was never a penalty in a million planets.
Alan McInally
#81. The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.
Kinky Friedman
#82. 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 one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
Anna Quindlen
#83. Winners expect to win before the contest starts; losers don't. Any individual becomes what he or she thinks about most. If you want to be a champion, then that thought must dominate your life. But most important, winners dwell on the rewards of winning; losers dwell on the penalties of failure.
Wade Schalles
#84. I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.
Hilary Swank
#85. Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.
William S. Burroughs
#86. The death penalty is inhumane ... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.
Danny Glover
#87. It's like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can't choose where they're going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don't like it.
Pope Francis
#88. After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
Niger Innis
#89. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
Sienna Wilder
#90. One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Mary Pickford
#91. If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.
Zakir Naik
#92. I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.
Robert M. Fresco
#93. You have rules to learn and penalties to experience
- Nox
Aleatha Romig
#94. It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their possessions to things so unstable and ever changing, alas, as words.
Georges Bernanos
#96. Sure it all seemed a little silly now but all the old antipathies about unfair penalties were still there just beneath the surface.
Liane Moriarty
#97. Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character.
Terry Venables
#98. The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.
Pope John Paul II
#99. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.
Mark Twain
#100. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either.
John Stuart Mill
