Penalty Quotes

This freedom of communication is indispensable for the development and extension of scientific knowledge, a consideration of much practical import. In the first instance it must be guaranteed by law. But laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man may present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population. Such an ideal of external liberty can never be fully attained but must be sought unremittingly if scientific thought, and philosophical and creative thinking in general, are to be advanced as far as possible.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

They shall suffer for this. They shall suffer for this.

I forbid any one to sell a man beyond the limits of the country, under penalty of a fine in full to me.

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

Men who commit adultery with the wives of others, the king shall cause to be marked by punishments which cause terror, and afterwards banish.

On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

Thieves must sit in prison.

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

Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

Prison works.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Alchemists are criminal and shall forfeit to the public all the gold that they have been able to obtain.

If I do something wrong, make me pay for it.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Every law must be just in every part of it, but if the penalty annexed be unjust, how can it be held forth as a just law?

Petition your state legislatures to pardon every convict in their several penitentiaries, blessing them as they go, and saying to them, in the name of the Lord, go thy way and sin no more. Advise your legislators when they make laws for larceny, burglary or any felony, to make the penalty applicable to work upon roads, public works, or any place where the culprit can be taught more wisdom and more virtue; and become more enlightened. Rigor and seclusion will never do as much to reform the propensities of man, as reason and friendship. Murder only can claim confinement or death. Let the penitentiaries be turned into seminaries of learning, where intelligence, like the angels of heaven, would banish such fragments of barbarism.

The Qur'an not only lacks any earthly punishment for someone who abandons Islam, it even includes verses that imply that such a change of heart should be a matter of free choice.

Those who are late will be punished by life itself.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.