Executioners Quotes

70 quotes by 60 authors

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. — Charles Baudelaire
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. — Ray Bradbury
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. — Omar N. Bradley
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. — Marlon Brando
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius
We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are… — Greg Norman
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… — Marquis de Sade
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world;… — Thomas Browne
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing,… — Alexander Herzen
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts… — Thomas Jefferson
Christianity is religion for the executioner. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Revenge proves it's own executioner. — John Ford
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for… — J M Coetzee
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery
How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to… — John Flavel
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned… — Jamie Fellner
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… — Howard Zinn
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. — Thomas Browne
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this… — Joseph de Maistre

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