John Locke
Philosopher, Physician
"It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties."
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Penalties
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Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer, Author
"The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it."
Kin Hubbard
Cartoonist, Humorist
"Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely."
Alan Parker
Film Director
"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."
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"Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes."
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"Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties."
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"The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
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"Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there?"
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"Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty."
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"We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down."
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"If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize."
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"What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head"
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"The death penalty makes us all murderers."
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"Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty."
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"Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil."
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"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
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"Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself."
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"High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified."
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"It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate."
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"The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly."
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"To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty"
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