Penal Quotes

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Help, Humanity, Thinking

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Christopher Hitchens

Used, Either, View

The world is a penal institution.
Taylor Caldwell

In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
James McHenry

Around, Bible, Laws

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
Charles Rangel

Process, Crime, Invisible

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.
Roger Mahony

Law, Last, Church

I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
Frank Morgan

Life, Grateful, System

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

Death, Pain, Purpose

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Different, Remember, Same

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