Guillotine Quotes
43 quotes by 38 authors
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The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me.
— Dustin Penner
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies…
— Alistair Cooke
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Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.
— Rowan Atkinson
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be…
— Ray Bradbury
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The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
— Herbert Lom
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Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their guilty leaders getting…
— Roseanne Barr
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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
— Franz Kafka
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I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of…
— Marquis de Sade
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Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?
— Dennis Cooper
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I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN…
— Alice Cooper
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
— Camille Desmoulins
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political…
— Arthur Koestler
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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
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GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
— Albert Camus
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The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
— Ani DiFranco
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Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.
— Hans Arp
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A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine…
— Susan Neiman
Who Wrote These Guillotine Quotes
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