#penalty

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#answers #anything #complex #death #death penalty

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#deny #doomed #free #generally #girl

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex. ↗

— Bill Maher

#kids #penalty #sex #some

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death-penalty #gandalf #j-r-r-tolkien #lord-of-the-rings #death

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [On Water] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#government #people #punishment #retribution #revolts

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

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

— Gary Bauer

#death #death penalty #i #mock #penalty

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#already #been #death #estate #estate tax