Penal Quotes

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.

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.

The world is a penal institution.

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

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.

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

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

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