Guillotine Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

The guillotine has to fall somewhere when the team under-produces, and more times than not it's fallen on me. — Dustin Penner
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
Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine. — Rowan Atkinson
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
The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently. — Herbert Lom
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
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. — Franz Kafka
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
Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine? — Dennis Cooper
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
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
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
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
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. — Ambrose Bierce
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
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. — Albert Camus
The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall. — Ani DiFranco
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
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
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

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