Executed Quotes
176 quotes by 162 authors
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not…
— Jayna Hefford
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
— Edward James Olmos
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
— Alfred de Vigny
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I've never struggled with that at all. In the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children,…
— Rick Perry
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The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,…
— Charles Babbage
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When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute…
— Randall Terry
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According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones…
— Robert Klein
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We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was…
— William Lane Craig
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Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was…
— Ricky Gervais
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I wouldn't say it was lucky. We executed the play well. We should have had another one (TD). Obviously, if you do what's right on…
— Austin Collie
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In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and…
— George Ryan
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most…
— William J. Brennan
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I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to…
— Mike Farrell
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I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.
— Bill McCollum
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For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed...
— Kathleen Parker
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration…
— Ramsey Clark
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