Penalties Quotes - Page 26

• I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.

  Thomas Muller

  Needed, Stills

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• 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

  Book, Viruses, Growing

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.155, Holt Paperbacks

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• The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

  Karl Kraus

  Crime, Commit

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

  Frances Wright

  Freedom, Blessing, Giving

  Frances Wright (1821). “Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820”, p.518

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• Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.210, Vintage

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• Fame is the penalty of success. Jealousy is the penalty of fame.

  Sivananda

  Fame

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• I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

  John Waters

  Years, Death Penalty, Crime

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.

  Gail Collins

  Writing, Government, Sight

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Roger Wicker

  Marriage, Children, Cutting

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• Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including three young black men in 2003. What is needed in Cuba is a concert in favor of democracy, civil liberties for the people, the freedom of political prisoners, free elections and the expulsion of dictatorial power.

  Zoe Valdes

  Men, Thinking, Squad

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• I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.

  Galway Kinnell

  Art, Fall, Knowing

  Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.

  Charles Babbage

  Loss, Intellectual, Nuisance

  Charles Babbage (1864). “A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from "Passages in the Life of a Philosopher."]”, p.8

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• Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

  William H. Calvin

  Procrastination, Years, Climate

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• The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!

  Benedict of Nursia

  Evil, Silence, Sake

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• While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  War, Exercise, Punishment

  "War and Capital Punishment" by Jimmy Akin, www.catholic.com. March 2, 2005.

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• The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

  Pope John Paul II

  Abortion, Crime, Committed

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Reason, Figures

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant's wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant's counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers.

  Gerald Heaney

  Race, Decision, Political

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• That was never a penalty in a million planets.

  Alan McInally

  Football, Planets, Millions

  "Saturday Sundae". www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

  Rand Paul

  Leadership, Party, Technology

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• We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Believe, Two

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Because I am a deep believer in the civil society, I think we should be prepared to pay the consequences of breaking the law and that is either paying the penalty for it, or leaving the country.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

  Elliott Abrams

  America, Doubt, Pay

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• Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice.

  Richard Viguerie

  Running, Believe, Government

  "Conservatives are Rethinking the Death Penalty" by Kevin Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2017.

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