Quotes:
This is the most obscene remark made by a senior politician in recent years and signals a shift to the right of terrifying proportions. If the death penalty had been in place for the last 30 years, dozens of people, who were later proved innocent, would have been killed. [In response to a Tory MP speaking in favour of the death penalty]
View quotes by Mark Oaten
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country
View quotes by Dennis Miller
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
View quotes by Alphonse Karr
This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy [on David Davis' pro death-penalty stance]
View quotes by John Major
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
View quotes by Albert Camus
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
View quotes by Susan Sontag
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds
View quotes by Phaedrus
A penalty is a cowardly way to score.
View quotes by Pele
They did that because they have so many of them during the season that they had to try something special.
[Man City penalty mix up]
View quotes by Jose Mourinho
I've only taken one penalty before, for Crystal Palace at Ipswich.
View quotes by Gareth Southgate
Fairness is not even an issue [on penalty taking]
View quotes by Christian Karembeu
We're suffering because of what happened against Arsenal... one of my players would have to be hit by an axe to get a penalty at the moment.
View quotes by Sir Alex Ferguson
There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power
View quotes by Francois De Salignac Fenelon
Death is delightful. Death is dawn,
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light.
View quotes by Joaquin Miller
He shouldn't have taken the penalty like that...I can understand it, he was up in the clouds [on Peter Crouch's miss]
View quotes by Sven Goran Eriksson
If you're in the penalty area and aren't sure what to do with the ball, just stick it in the net, and we'll discuss your options afterwards.
View quotes by Bill Shankly
The fans have taken to Crouchy. We're not sure that's because of his play or the dance. At least his dancing is better than his penalty taking!
View quotes by Steven Gerrard
Mark Halsey didn't have a decision to make, apart from giving the penalty
View quotes by Chris Kamara
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