And what have you laymen made of hell A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more
Quotes about felons (16 Quotes)
The decision not to hear the case simply reaffirms that the clemency process which is laid out in our Constitution is a fair one which allows felons to regain their rights through a thoughtful process.
What we're looking for behind the scenes are background checks for known felons and other things that are publicly available, to make sure these don't get in the hands of a criminal.
I am stunned that less than one month after the worst school shooting in our nation's history, the Senate has decided to make it easier for felons, fugitives, and other prohibited purchasers to buy guns,
This plan to disenfranchise felons will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.
Emotional or ethical considerations aside, it doesn't make good economic sense to turn 12 million people into felons andor to send them all back to the countries they came from. At the end of the day, the U.S. does not presently have the financial resources to effectively enforce these kinds of measures, even if doing either could somehow be seen as the right thing to do.
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
We've stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from getting their hands on guns, ... And the most important statistic is that gun crime in the country is down 35 percent.
Gun buyback programs are largely gestures for Mr. Rogers' neighborhood on TV, ... The world of drug dealers and gang members and violent felons -- they don't live in that neighborhood.
Not all these people are eligible to be in apartments on their own, ... We found some sex offenders and some felons, people who have no credit at all.
There's a kind of robotic logic at work in his memorandum that runs roughshod over important distinctions between nonviolent and violent felons.
The Minutemen were offensive because they were kind of scary, but no one disagrees with border enforcement, really. It angered some people, but it angered activists. But when Congress said 'You hardworking people, we are going to call you felons,' that really broke through. You were no longer talking about policy, you were talking about who they are, that they are bad people.
We're going to see fugitives and felons, eventually, being able to get guns much more easily.
A television ad for the ballot measures began Wednesday in the two states. In the 30-second spot, McCain says that because of a legal loophole, felons have bought and sold thousands of guns at shows. Many were later used in crimes, ... That's wrong.
It was something that really wanted to happen. (Latinos are) really upset about the notion of being felons. It's deeply insulting, and it really got a lot of people into action.
The initiative is a severe limitation of the number of crimes that can be considered for a life sentence. It involves the release of thousands of felons that juries, judges and prosecutors ... have decided ... should serve their sentences. We would hope that the people would pay attention to our vote.