Penalties Quotes - Page 2

• People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

  "10 Ways to Blow a Death Penalty Case" by Marc Bookman, www.motherjones.com. April 22, 2014.

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• No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

  Clarence Darrow

  Helping, Fierce, Offense

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

  Elia Kazan

  Business, Decision, Way

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Movie, Silly

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• To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Punishment

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• 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

  Plato, Death Penalty, Philosopher

  "Years of Minutes"‎ by Andy Rooney, (p. 332), 2004.

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• First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Doe, Firsts, Death Penalty

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• 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

  Illinois, Arbitrary, Death Penalty

  "Illinois Death Row Emptied". www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2003.

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• Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

  Bobby Hull

  Sports, Anger, Hockey

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• 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

  Government, Ideas, Democracy

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• 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

  America, Slavery, Death Penalty

  "We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty" by Diann Rust-Tierney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2009.

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• 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

  Winning, Best Effort, Justice

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded" by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• 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

  People, Locks, Favors

  "Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham". "Bill Moyers Journal" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2008.

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• 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

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• 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

  Thinking, Law, Justice

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

  Nancy Reagan

  Death, Thinking, People

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• The death penalty experiment has failed.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Death Penalty, Human Rights, Experiments

  "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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• Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Degrees, Firsts, Murder

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• Taxes are a penalty on progress.

  James Cook

  Progress, Taxes

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• If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Sports, Block, Player

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• Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.

  Max Anders

  Jesus, Essentials, Might

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• I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

  Ujjwal Nikam

  Punishment, Purpose, Messages

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• You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

  Henry James

  Queens, Pain, Thinking

  Henry James (2015). “Washington Square (Unabridged): Satirical Novel from the famous author of the realism movement, known for Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Princess Casamassima, The Bostonians, The American…”, p.85, e-artnow

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• The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard

  Terry Goodkind

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.31, Macmillan

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• The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

  Plato

  Men, Political, Good Man

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