Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“… does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Hangman is great, it teaches you that by saying the wrong thing can end someone's life. — Ali 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
“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
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
“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.” — 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
“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
“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
“An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean -… — Paul Merton 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
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
“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
“I will not mince words. There’s been enough mincing for one day. Therefore, I shall ask my question bluntly: How does a… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Despite his elegant appearance, Mr. Gweta’s most striking asset was his alluring personality. Professor Khupe had met few such men in his… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Being a hangman requires you to take someone else’s life based on someone else’s judgment, and carry it out on someone else’s… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“The story was an 82 year old guy with a broken neck. He had apparently fallen in his bathroom that morning, cracking… — Terrence Holt Copy Share Image
“The key trait of a Sperm Pirate is that she is not driven by desperation. Escaping poverty or hardship is not her… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“As I said, I don’t expect you to understand—” “And I don’t,” he cut in. “Ye ask how I can live a… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.” — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image