How does one address... the master of the vampire…

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the…

— Anne Desclos

The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as…

— Paul Reubens

Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those…

— Graham Greene

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,…

— Anton Chekhov

I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is…

— Marlon Brando

What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you…

— Tom Heinsohn

In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as…

— Kirby Page

“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his…

— John Locke

God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls.…

— Paul of the Cross

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises…

— Alexander Herzen

“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of…

— Grant Morrison

We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We…

— Greg Norman

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in…

— Marquis de Sade

Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who…

— Octave Mirbeau