Punishment Quotes

Punishment for putting patients at risk ought to reflect the gravity of manufacturing, distributing or selling counterfeit medications.

Gene Green

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The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Benigno Aquino III

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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

Ted Cruz

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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid

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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Ida B. Wells

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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

John Ashcroft

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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

Jeff Lindsay

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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

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I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

Russell Johnson

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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

Deborah Moggach

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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

Bram Fischer

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I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

Allen West

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Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

Lyman Trumbull

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We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected.

Janet Reno

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Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

Grace Poe

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If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

Evan Osnos

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Zero-tolerance on drinking and driving - meaning no drinking at all before driving - is a collective punishment that, in essence, only affects responsible adults who follow the law.

David Harsanyi

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For every criminal case, the judge must construct a perfect syllogism: the major premise must be the general law; the minor premise, whether or not the action in question is in compliance with the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

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By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick

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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Lawrence Durrell

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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Geoffrey Fisher

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