Penalty Quotes

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

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.

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.

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.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

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.

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

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.