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Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there? -- Laurent Blanc
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. -- Karl Kraus
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. -- Clarence Darrow
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. -- Elia Kazan
Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character. -- Terry Venables
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. -- Simon Barnes
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself -- Jimmy Carter
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
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. -- N. T. Wright
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. -- Bianca Jagger
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. -- George Ryan
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. -- Alphonse Karr
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. -- Angela Davis
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. -- Jack Kevorkian
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. -- George Ryan
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. -- Albert Einstein
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. -- Steve Earle
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. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. -- Burke Marshall
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. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. -- Albert Camus
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. -- Troy King
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. -- John Grisham
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. -- Eliot Spitzer
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. -- Nick Cave
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution. -- Jimmy Carter
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. -- W. L. George
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. -- William S. Burroughs
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. -- William Gilmore Simms
Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties. -- Loretta Young
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. -- Kin Hubbard
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
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus. -- Ken Calvert
I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life. -- Debra Messing
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
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes. -- Ada Cambridge
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
F1 is giving penalties for people making mistakes instead of for people driving dirty. And that is wrong. Mistakes happen. You run into each other: that's life, that's racing, and too bad. -- Jacques Villeneuve
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. -- Jesse Ventura
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
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
If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws. -- Robert Reich
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
I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact. -- Steven Gerrard
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
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
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
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I know how Mesut Ozil takes penalties, -- Manuel Neuer
Getting talked about is one of the penalties. -- Kin Hubbard
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. -- Lord Acton
I think the penalties are grossly unfair. I think it's borderline shameful. -- Matt Kenseth
I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos -- Gianluigi Buffon
I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper. -- Thomas Muller
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings. -- Christopher Morley
The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age. -- Edward Gibbon
Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits. -- Yehudi Menuhin
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression. -- Anthony Kennedy
We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also. -- Joanne Greenberg
There are not many times when I get nervous, but I do a little bit with penalties. -- Alan Shearer
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
I didn't take many penalties but I never missed one. You just need to stick to your plan. -- Jurgen Klopp
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved. -- Winston Churchill
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties. -- John Locke
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. -- Aldo Leopold
In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received. -- Eleanor Farjeon
It is one thing to impose drastic measures and harsh economic penalties when an environmental problem is clear-cut and severe.... -- Frederick Seitz
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. -- Mark Twain
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. -- Douglas MacArthur
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
Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
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
Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards. -- Rudy Giuliani
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise. -- John Calvin
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
No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets. -- Mick McCarthy
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
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure. -- Roger Crawford
The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties. -- Hugo Black
Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties. -- DeMarcus Ware
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine. -- A. J. P. Taylor
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
When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs! -- Hillary Clinton
I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
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
It is essential that we aggressively pursue all criminal offenders, especially those who commit these heinous crimes against women - and seek the maximum penalties under the law. -- Donald Trump
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining. -- Henri Rousseau
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties! -- Henry David Thoreau
I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations, -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
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
The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths. -- Cleve Jones
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
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper. -- Pat Summitt
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
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
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
I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization. -- Sunday Adelaja
The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers. -- Aldo Leopold

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