War Quote by Albert Camus

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested,…

— Howard Zinn

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just…

— Richard Paul Evans

“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”

— Lao Tzu

“Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the inalienable rights…

— Josef Pieper

“Executioners don’t hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same. Because they’re ordered to. الجلادون لا يكرهون الناس الذين يعدمونهم ,إنهم يعدمونهم جميعاً بالطريقة نفسها لأنهم مأمورون بذلك.”

— Bernhard Schlink

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

— Charles Baudelaire