...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man…

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his…

— Aristotle

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere…

— Isaac Asimov

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

— Bobby Bowden

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

— Paul Eldridge

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

— Carl Jung

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

— Caitlin Thomas

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

— Clinton D. McKinnon

You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin,…

— Bill Moyers

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

— Cynthia Heimel

Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because…

— Elizabeth Lesser

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

— William Wallace

Usually I don't find gore or slasher films scary. What works for me is the slower build where you are tightening the noose around…

— Oren Peli

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they…

— Billy Corgan