Execution Quotes
388 quotes by 321 authors
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Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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It’s a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.†Like a stage?†Evanlyn suggested. “Maybe they’re planning…
— John Flanagan
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My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words,…
— Thomas Hardy
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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he…
— Carl Sagan
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And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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Nothing like having a warrant for your execution to get a girl motivated.
— Maria V. Snyder
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The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your…
— Gayle Forman
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The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy,…
— Herman Wouk
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Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.
— Rachel Vincent
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An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.†“Is that an order?†“No, a…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution
— Ian Mcewan
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Friday morning, Kylie, Miranda, and Della, each carting suitcases, walked the trail to meet up with their parents. They walked slowly, like condemned prisoners moving…
— C.C. Hunter
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it…
— Saint Augustine
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...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.
— Vince Flynn
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In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour…
— Thomas Hardy
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That execution will take place here." She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. "On this table. I thought it would be interesting to…
— Veronica Roth
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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the…
— Hermann Hesse
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Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or…
— Elizabeth Wein
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
— Elizabeth Wein
Who Wrote These Execution Quotes
321 authors contributed a total of 388 Execution Quotes, led by these top contributors: