Penalties – Quotes

I love to go

I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my … Read more

I write about how

I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only suggestions and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that … Read more

We as the Church

We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A lot of people don’t feel comfortable in doing this but I think we need to, as the Pope says, preach the whole gospel of life. Gabino Zavala

Those who try to

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life. G. E. M. Anscombe

I have evolved to

I have evolved to where I don’t think the death penalty is effective. Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

Loneliness is the penalty

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success. Ernest Shackleton

I was in favour

I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions…and that far from the sentimental approach leading … Read more