Behinds Quote by Anonymous

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

— George R. R. Martin

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

— Anonymous

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look…

— Anonymous

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her…

— George R. R. Martin

“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

“At times because of one man’s evil, ten thousand people suffer. So you kill that one man to let the tens of thousands live.…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said…

— Kahlil Gibran

“When you really believe that using sword can kill people, that's when you will be subject to the law of the sword, "those who…

— Toba Beta

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

— Lao Tzu

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer…

— Ernst Junger

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his…

— Joseph Addison

“A man who hesitates to strike his betrayer deserves to be struck by his own sword.”

— Mantšo Tšiu