Quotes About Penalty

#1. God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood. - Author: William Barclay

#2. There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first. - Author: Reginald Rose

#3. Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin. - Author: Mark Driscoll

#4. The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. - Author: Plato

#5. Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. - Author: Vanna Bonta

#6. I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year. - Author: Troy King

#7. When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty. - Author: Bobby Jindal

#8. Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. - Author: Bill Parcells

#9. Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent. - Author: William J. Brennan

#10. God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals. - Author: R.J. Rushdoony

#11. He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics. - Author: John Grisham

#12. Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. - Author: Philip Kaufman

#13. The Lord, however, transferred to His own flesh not sin, as the poison of the serpent, but He did transfer to it death, that the penalty without the fault might transpire in the likeness of sinful flesh, whence, in the sinful flesh, both the fault might be removed and the penalty. - Author: Bishop Serapion

#14. Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that. - Author: Jerzy Dudek

#15. No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#16. The penalty of greatness is to write autographs. - Author: Sophie Irene Loeb

#17. The penalty for summoning the dead back to earth is death; if the summoned spirit does not kill its summoner, be assured the Church will. - Author: Stacia Kane

#18. If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty. - Author: Howard Staunton

#19. Any effort ... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality. - Author: Nelson Goodman

#20. I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ. - Author: Jan Hus

#21. Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out. - Author: Jesse Bishop

#22. I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison, - Author: Pamela Smart

#23. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. - Author: Christopher Fry

#24. OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#25. One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty. - Author: Barry Ritholtz

#26. As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York ... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty. - Author: John R. Dunne

#27. [Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate. - Author: David S. Broder

#28. If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. - Author: Antonin Scalia

#29. Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness. - Author: Jerry Bridges

#30. I believe [ ... ] that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#31. Staying out of the penalty box will really help. - Author: Bobby Orr

#32. We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A lot of people don't feel comfortable in doing this but I think we need to, as the Pope says, preach the whole gospel of life. - Author: Gabino Zavala

#33. Remember that the Lord Jesus came to take away sin in three ways; He came to remove the penalty of sin, the power of sin, and, at last, the presence of sin. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#34. You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. - Author: N. T. Wright

#35. We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world ... but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There its course is often so very obscure; and often it seems to involve, so far as we can see, no penalty whatsoever. - Author: William Dean Howells

#36. Yes, I admit
miss all of you my silk eyes
everything about you
that singing yours to my ear
that smile
that penalty yours
that bitterness
the same where you left me
the same where I sink
the same where I do no longer exist - Author: Ivonne Yanez Saba

#37. I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that's just a personal belief that I have. - Author: John F. Kerry

#38. 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. - Author: Antonin Scalia

#39. My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty ... because it's the law. - Author: Tim Kaine

#40. Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher

#41. I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime ... period. - Author: Troy King

#42. The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill. - Author: Steve Forbes

#43. Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back. - Author: Thomas Carlyle

#44. [The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety. - Author: Edward Gibbon

#45. The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save. - Author: Lev Yashin

#46. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows. - Author: Stan Schatt

#47. Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation. - Author: Les Miles

#48. I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. - Author: Anthony Jeselnik

#49. I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure. - Author: Albert Einstein

#50. Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. - Author: Jimmy Carter

#51. In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. - Author: Andrew Weil

#52. My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad. - Author: S.A. Tawks

#53. One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. - Author: Roy Barnes

#54. Fear comes from the imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price for imagination - Author: Thomas Harris

#55. Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play. - Author: Bobby Orr

#56. Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. - Author: Thomas Huxley

#57. The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. - Author: Howard Staunton

#58. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against. - Author: David Platt

#59. Law without penalty is only advise. - Author: Adrian Rogers

#60. It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate. - Author: George Will

#61. The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment ... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society. - Author: Thurgood Marshall

#62. The surface causes of Adams's anxieties are not difficult to discern. Every activist knew the penalty for treason. Every congressman knew that prison, perhaps death, would be his reward if the American rebellion failed. - Author: John Ferling

#63. The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive. - Author: Richard Curtis

#64. A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. - Author: Warren E. Burger

#65. Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated - Author: George Gascon

#66. When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake. - Author: Jim Petro

#67. The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty. - Author: Quentin Crisp

#68. Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. - Author: Jonathan Shapiro

#69. That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it. - Author: Rob McCaffrey

#70. The counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life. - Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

#71. If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! - Author: Jeff Van Gundy

#72. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty. - Author: Charles Dickens

#73. The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness. - Author: Greg Zoeller

#74. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive. - Author: John Grisham

#75. I support the death penalty and will continue to do that. - Author: Rick Santorum

#76. Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success. - Author: Ernest Shackleton

#77. It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance. - Author: Rudy Giuliani

#78. A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. - Author: Dodie Smith

#79. I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. - Author: John Grisham

#80. In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here - Author: Troy King

#81. When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message. - Author: Mary Schapiro

#82. What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament? - Author: Billy Graham

#83. For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins
but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven. - Author: Dave Hunt

#84. The small heart cannot break. The ecstasy of its penalty solaces the large. - Author: Emily Dickinson

#85. More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit. - Author: Tim Murphy

#86. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box. - Author: Jock Stein

#87. The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. - Author: Edward Abbey

#88. Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. - Author: Rick Perry

#89. The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change. - Author: Peter F. Hamilton

#90. The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. - Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

#91. Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law. - Author: John Shadegg

#92. Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games. - Author: Emile Francis

#93. They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt. - Author: Stephen King

#94. With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death. - Author: Elie Wiesel

#95. Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted. - Author: Trey Gowdy

#96. If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much
less driving.
- Author: Lawrence Lessig

#97. Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. - Author: G. E. M. Anscombe

#98. No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe. - Author: Suzy Kassem

#99. All this grievin' is hard. We can't cheer for that man you trying to help but don't want to have to grieve for him, too. There shouldn't be no more killing behind this. - Author: Bryan Stevenson

#100. I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there. Absolutely astounding. - Author: Alex Ferguson