Chris Davis quotes

Chris Davis quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.”
-- Chris Davis

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“I'd like to credit my speed to my grandfather. But he was also a quiet player. He didn't talk much. He just went out there on the field and did his own thing.”
-- Chris Davis

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“Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.”

Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”
“Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”
“Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.”
“It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.”
“You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.”
“Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.”

Source : Abe Fortas (1968). “Concerning dissent and civil disobedience”, World Publishing Co.

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