Penalty

Famous quotes containing the word penalty:

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.”
—Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

“No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)