Life Quote by Anton Chekhov

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,…

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Lao Tzu

“...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

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the…

— Albert Camus

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

— George R. R. Martin

“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

I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to…

— Jay Bennett

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak

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

— Charles Baudelaire

“It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on…

— Charles Nodier

“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers,…

— Robert Walser