Executed Quotes

176 quotes by 162 authors

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. — Irving Kaufman
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to… — George Washington
My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy… — Joshua Chamberlain
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations… — Richard Dawkins
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said… — James M. Barrie
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are… — H. L. Mencken
Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration. — LeCrae
Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. — Paul Arden
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is… — Jimmy Carter
But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He… — Tucker Carlson
Our decisions, once executed, can never be erased. This is because such selections introduce a new series of conditions setting in motion events which cannot… — Henry D. Moyle
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. — George Henry Lewes
The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the… — Adolf Hitler
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than… — Richard Dawkins
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be… — Joseph Story
The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted.… — Michael Kirby
I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be… — George Bernard Shaw
This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded. — George Galloway
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline

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