top of page

"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Punishment quotes

"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"

"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."

"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."

"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
Explore more quotes by William J. Brennan


"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."


"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."


"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."


"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."


"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
bottom of page