No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.” — Raleigh Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Hangman is great, it teaches you that by saying the wrong thing can end someone's life. — Ali Copy Share Image
“Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“One candidate who considered applying for the position explained his change of heart: “That job is like unprotected sex. It feels amazing… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people’s scars. I have my… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
“One day, a shadow will come to my door. He will push his head back and scuff the dirt with one heel,… — J Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“Bargain all you like. Consign yourself to the hangman if you must. The people don't give a fourpenny fuck." 512” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“When change cometh, she will bring peace at her back. She will not bend to your will; you must bend to heres.” — Adriana Mather Copy Share Image
“Our age difference is an easy target and a better excuse, but this secret is the Hangman’s noose.” — YellowBella Copy Share Image
The mourners are all singing as they drag you by your feet, but the hangman isn't hanging so they put you on… — Steely Dan Copy Share Image
“It is finally only the fiend who doth truly worship God, as the felon adores the hangman, for the one is defined… — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
“Course you did,” said Tom. “Always talk. If you was up on the gallows you’d be passin’ the time a day with… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree; The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag; The Wag, my pretty… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“As the hangman’s wagon entered the paved square, the music broke off. Someone screamed, “Hey, hangman! Have you sharpened your sword? But… — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“... eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“In Panama, I found a spider that eats its own limbs during lean times. I am told they grow back. But though… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image