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Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. -- Vanna Bonta
Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved. -- Franz Beckenbauer
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? -- Tony Randall
I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison -- Theodore Kaczynski
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' -- John Fugelsang
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
I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. -- Tim Kaine
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. -- Bobby Scott
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. -- Nancy Reagan
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. -- George Ryan
Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. -- Horace
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do. -- Wayne Rooney
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. -- Alphonse Karr
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. -- Hesiod
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
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be. -- Ray Bradbury
You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty! -- Rafael Cruz
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
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. -- John Grisham
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt - and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won. -- Woody Hayes
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 submit that 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 law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. -- Noam Chomsky
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. -- Antonin Scalia
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do. -- Nancy Gibbs
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
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. -- Rick Perry
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? -- Richard LaGravenese
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it. -- Michael Moore
I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty. -- Michael Moore
The death penalty experiment has failed. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Remember, the death penalty is murder. -- Robert Drew
Law without penalty is only advise. -- Adrian Rogers
I'm for a stronger death penalty. -- George W. Bush
Taxes are a penalty on progress. -- James Cook
I believe in the death penalty. -- James Dobson
I am against the death penalty. -- Andrew Cuomo
Your best penalty killer is your goalie. -- Dave Allison
The death penalty makes us all murderers. -- Dean Smith
The penalty of greatness is to write autographs. -- Sophie Irene Loeb
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. -- William Feather
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. -- Bill Paxton
A penalty is a cowardly way to score. -- Pele
Staying out of the penalty box will really help. -- Bobby Orr
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal. -- Ovid
Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking] -- Christian Karembeu
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward. -- John Maynard Keynes
That was never a penalty in a million planets. -- Alan McInally
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. -- Ted Lindsay
The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent. -- Lou Brock
I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. -- Kinky Friedman
No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; -- William Taylor
God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals. -- R.J. Rushdoony
The death penalty is reserved for people who do not -- Paul Simon
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. -- Chief Joseph
I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison, -- Pamela Smart
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize. -- Terry Pratchett
High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified. -- Frank Portman
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. -- Seneca the Younger
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself. -- Frank Herbert
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change. -- Peter F. Hamilton
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. -- Patricia Cornwell
Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil. -- Mahatma Gandhi
How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty -- Loesje
That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it. -- Rob McCaffrey
The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box. -- Jock Stein
I support the death penalty and will continue to do that. -- Rick Santorum
We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair. -- George Gascon
It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate. -- George Will
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination. -- Thomas Harris
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. -- Alan Parker
If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty. -- Jesse Ventura
I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history. -- Shane Claiborne
You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area... -- Ron Atkinson
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. -- Dennis Miller
Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame. -- Sivananda
He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse -- Angus Loughran
There are simply some laws we must transgress, no matter the penalty. -- Eli Hinze
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. -- N. T. Wright
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. -- Ray Krone
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. -- Plato
I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective. -- Evelyn Lundberg Stratton
The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. -- Howard Staunton
We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down. -- Alexandre Dumas-fils
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death. -- Cassandra Danz
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. -- Jon Stewart
When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device -- Mike Parry
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed. -- Thomas Muller
Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies? -- Masta Killa
I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. -- Nancy Reagan
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact. -- Ed Koch
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. -- Troy King
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds. -- Epictetus
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. -- Bianca Jagger
[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians. -- Bill Frist
Kids. They're not easy, but there has to be some penalty for having sex. -- Bill Maher
The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her. -- Lionel Strachey
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. -- Bob Butterworth
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. -- Ron White
Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. -- Burt Prelutsky
When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. -- Audie Cornish
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? -- Brigitte Bardot
I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida. -- Jeb Bush
Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games. -- Emile Francis
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man. -- Plato
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you. -- Nancy Astor
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. -- Kinky Friedman
There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times. -- Jack Youngblood
I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job. -- Tie Domi
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden. -- Danny Glover
Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. -- Dianne Feinstein
I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. -- Hilary Swank
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. -- Dodie Smith
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. -- Nancy Astor
If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to! -- Jeff Van Gundy

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