Executioners Quote by Bernhard Schlink

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“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

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

“...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

“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

“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

“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

There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a…

— Laozi

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

— Lao Tzu

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

— Elie Wiesel