Hanged Quotes
104 quotes by 90 authors
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
— Noam Chomsky
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk…
— Heinrich Heine
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then,…
— John Selden
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I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
— Moliere
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I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.
— Anne Bonny
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
— Bertrand Russell
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I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted…
— Henry Adams
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Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to…
— Amy Ridenour
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The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and…
— Mark Twain
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
— William Shakespeare
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And I know one thing more - that the Europe of the future cannot exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were…
— Andrzej Szczypiorski
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People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning…
— Neil Gaiman
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No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it…
— Oliver Cromwell
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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