Death Penalty Act

Famous quotes containing the words death, penalty and/or act:

    “if once the message greet him
    That his True Love doth stay,
    If Death should come and meet him,
    Love will find out the way!”
    —Unknown. Love Will Find Out the Way (l. 53–56)

    “So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)