#finality

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. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#certain #consequences #deterrent #effect #factor

Finality is not the language of politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#language #politics

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. ↗

— James Stephens

#finality #lumps #nothing #perfect #perfection

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#definition #existence #finality #life #death

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ↗

— Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomers

#death #finality #hope #love #stars

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#because #comedies #failure #fascinated #finality

The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. ↗

— Byron White

#complete #death #especially #finality #infecting