Executed Quotes

176 quotes by 162 authors

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned,… — Peter Benenson
Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized… — Charles Manson
I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise. — James Wolfe
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the… — John Hospers
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a… — Ma Jian
Such is Life [Executed by hanging.] — Ned Kelly
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine… — Herodotus
You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way… — Steven Moffat
If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, "Injection? I… — Jack Handey
Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks… — Dave Stevens
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. — George Carlin
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form… — Eugen Herrigel
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Guy Endore
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary… — Peter Greenaway
Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned… — Bill Maher
A race between Perry and Christie would test whether Americans would rather be executed or eaten. — Andy Borowitz
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of… — Norman Lamm
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of… — Joseph Story
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and… — James Madison
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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