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