Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Charles Caleb Colton

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

Richard G. Scott

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Bram Fischer

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.

David Shore

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Alan Parker

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

Dean Smith

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Dennis Miller

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Andrew Cuomo

I am against the death penalty.

Jesse Ventura

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

Jesse Ventura

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

Nelson Mandela

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Harry A. Blackmun

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Gary Bauer

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

David Suchet

It's an honour to have such a wonderful international cast on board for this world famous murder mystery. Writer Stewart Harcourt has created an exquisite script. His attention to detail is impeccable.

Debra Messing

Everything has to do with murder.

Derek Bailey

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

Aaron Klein

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

C. S. Lewis

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Agatha Christie

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

Alberto Fujimori

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Donald Trump

Nothing even comes a close second. Hillary Clinton, for instance, talks constantly about her fears that families will be separated, but she's not talking about the American families who have been permanently separated from their loved ones because of a preventable homicide, because of a preventable death, because of murder.

Albert Camus

Murder is terribly exhausting.