Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Suleiman

I think it (suspending aid) will be a punishment for the people, which we don't want.

Saint Augustine

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

William J. Brennan

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

William J. Brennan

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Woody Allen

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

William Gilmore Simms

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Ellery Channing

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Ric Flair

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Robert Duvall

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Zane Grey

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Emanuel Celler

I had fought against the unjust restriction of immigration.

Eliza Haywood

those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ...

Jane Austen

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Jane Austen

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Edmund Burke

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Confucius

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

Ambrose Bierce

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

Anthony Kennedy

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

Nayef Rajoub

Have you forgotten that Israel is the occupying power here? Do I need to remind you of an occupying power's obligations under international law?

Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

John Dawson

I just wanted to come back and spend one more night, ... I know I've forgotten a lot in my time, but good memories like staying here stay with me.

Gerhard Schroeder

can only be preserved if the past is not forgotten and not distorted.

Lee Etzler

I hope you haven't forgotten that game, because I haven't.

Andres Obrador

I'm going to respect everyone. But the poor and forgotten of Mexico will get preferential treatment.

Eric Thomas

Be phenomenal or be forgotten!

Peter Neururer

They seem to have forgotten they play us first in Hannover - that's disrespectful. Bayern has to be punished for their behavior.

Mary Wittenberg

We predicted and hoped for a race for the ages. And we got one that will never be forgotten by those who saw it.