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Execution Quotes by Albert Pierrepoint
- It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out…
- I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the…
More Execution Quotes
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne
- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. — Hank Aaron
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken… — Samuel Johnson
- There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon
- The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh
- After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as… — Leonardo da Vinci
- All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis. — Marcel Duchamp