Offenders Quotes - Page 3

• Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

  Junius

  Compassion, Law, Cruelty

  Junius (1807). “Junius: Stat nominis umbra”, p.141

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• I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

  Mark Foley

  Country, Sex, Book

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• So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

  Lauren Beukes

  Twelve, Cracks, Ems

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.149, Jacana Media

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• There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Satisfaction, Vengeance, Realizing

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2003). “A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Justice, Trying

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.114

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• The offender never pardons.

  George Herbert

  Forgiveness, Literature, Pardon

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.309

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• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  Preston Brooks

  Respect, Self, Should Have

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• It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Marijuana, Law, Jail

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• The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.

  Leon Panetta

  Military, Law, Issues

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. It is embarrassing and unpleasant as a subject for discussion but because of its prevalence, the need to warn the uninitiated, and the desire to help those who may already be involved in it, it is discussed in this chapter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Temptation, Desire

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• I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

  Kurt Cobain

  Nymphs, Jam, Pearls

  "Pages From Kurt Cobain's 'Journals' Published" by Jon Wiederhorn, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2002.

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• The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Inability, Forget

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.16, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

  Ted Nugent

  Repeats

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• In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

  David Hackworth

  Men, Order, Rifles

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• There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Europe, Law

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.34, Villard

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• If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.

  Miroslav Volf

  Heart, Justice, Forgiving

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 2, 2004.

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• Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Country, Simple, America

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• I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

  Lisa Bonet

  Youth, Speak, Manipulate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teenager, Average, People

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• In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective sergeant came and whispered to me in the press pit. He pointed out a young offender, a teenager who was up for stealing a car or something relatively minor, and said, 'See this kid? He'll kill.'

  Kevin Barry

  Teenager, Kids, Cities

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong ... Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men. Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers - they won't inherit the kingdom of God.

  Phil Robertson

  Sleep, Gay, Men

  "What the Duck?". Interview with Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Heart, Fire, Giving

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The vastly different sentences afforded drunk drivers and drug offenders tells us who is viewed as disposable - someone to be purged from the body politic - and who is not. Drunk drivers are predominately white and male.

  Michelle Alexander

  White, Drunk, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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