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«Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.»
«'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Judgement
| Keywords:
abolition, demand, infallibility, penalties, penalty, proved, Til, til now
«But such as open their breast to unbelief on them is Wrath from Allah and theirs will be a dreadful penalty»
«A far greater factor [than abolishing poverty] is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
Consequences,
Judgement,
Poverty
| Keywords:
abolishing, arrest, deterrent, penalty, prompt, prompter, swift
«Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Punishment
| Keywords:
assassins, entertain, expediency, misgiving, misgivings, penalty, regarding, The Assassins
«CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat. _Capital Punishment_, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons --including all the assassins --entertain grave misgivings.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchist, anarchists, assassins, dinner table, disgrace, entertain, expediency, fork, knife, misgiving, misgivings, misgovernment, penalty, regarding, repast, supplies, The Assassin, The Assassins
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accompanied, barbarous, claims, death instinct, death penalty, equilibrium, instincts, in check, penalty, refinements, warring, war crime
«Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime»
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
accepts, arouse, arousing, breaks, community, conscience, expressing, higher law, highest, imprisonment, individual, injustice, injustices, in reality, law, penalties, penalty, respect, tells, The Law, unjust, willingly
«And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Suffering,
Truth
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, award, condemned, condemned to death, depart, penalty, villainy
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