#penalty

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#death penalty #effective #enforcement #more #penalty

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference. ↗

— Mike Lee

#difference #distinction #me #money #out

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. ↗

— 118

#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? ↗

— Tony Randall

#also #boast #country #death #death penalty

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

Staying out of the penalty box will really help. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#help #out #penalty #really #staying

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

#because #capricious #death #death penalty #i

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#compromise #death #death penalty #despite #i

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. ↗

— Zakir Naik

#bigotry #death-penalty #fanaticism #islam #religion