In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
“Julian will go to the gallows for us, and we will smile, and dream of victory-- hazy-red, soon to come, a blood-colored… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows… — Kandathil Sebastian Copy Share Image
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered:… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Clergymen, judges, statesmen--the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day--stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,'… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“Dr. Warren is no more but fell gloriously fighting for his Country-saying better to die honourably in the field than ignominiously hang… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend?… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer, before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The great writers like Chekhov know that tragedy and laughter are just a few steps from each other ... but it took… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
“By accident, her gaze slipped onto the king’s face, and she found his dark eyes staring into hers. The king smirked. Her… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, Few come within the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
“The gallows in my garden, people say, Is new and neat and adequately tall; I tie the noose on in a knowing… — Gilbert Keith Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns… — Kofi Awoonor Copy Share Image
You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image