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

— Albert Camus

“...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

“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.”

— Tim Kreider

“They didn’t call me the Executioner for nothing. So how did I end up being safer in the depths of the Circus of the…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“I am willing to admit that it was somewhat foolish of me to have not prepared myself for the sacrifice of stability required by…

— Jeremy Scott Blaustein

“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

“It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but…

— Ann Leckie

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

— Lao Tzu

“At the time, I remained relatively calm before that spectacle of horrors, which is perhaps the most telling indication of just how desensitized I…

— Kang Chol-Hwan

“But in the end I had to acknowledge that, whether I was emotionally challenged or not, there was no avoiding at least some of…

— Joanne Limburg