Quotes on Penalties

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

I care so deeply about this matter that I'm willing to take on the legal penalties, to sit in this prison cell, to sacrifice my freedom, in order to show you how deeply I care. Because when you see the depth of my concern, and how civil I am in going about this, you're bound to change your mind about me, to abandon your rigid, unjust position, and to let me help you see the truth of my cause.

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.

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.

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

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

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

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.