Hangman Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

• If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. — Luther Burbank
• Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and… — Vladimir Lenin
• Every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
• Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. — Eli Wallach
• The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or… — Augusto Roa Bastos
• Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it… — Ludwig von Mises
• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
• It would repel me less to be a hangman than a soldier, because the one is obliged to put to death only criminals sentenced by… — George Santayana
• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited… — Robert Burns
• I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman. — Neil Young
• If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your… — Robert Jordan
• A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• Hangman is great, it teaches you that by saying the wrong thing can end someone's life. — Ali
• The hangman isn't hanging, so they put you on the street. — Steely Dan
• The mourners are all singing as they drag you by your feet, but the hangman isn't hanging so they put you on the street. — Steely Dan
• A guilty conscience never feels secure. The feeling of Guilt that overwhelmes you is the nerve of sorrow that will never let you have that… — Kev Moores

Who Wrote These Hangman Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Hangman Quotes as follows:

• 2 Hangman Quotes by Steely Dan
• 2 Hangman Quotes by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Hangman Quote by Neil Young
• 1 Hangman Quote by Robert Jordan
• 1 Hangman Quote by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Hangman Quote by Ali
• 1 Hangman Quote by Kev Moores
• 1 Hangman Quote by Luther Burbank
• 1 Hangman Quote by Vladimir Lenin
• 1 Hangman Quote by Eli Wallach
• 1 Hangman Quote by Augusto Roa Bastos
• 1 Hangman Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Hangman Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Hangman Quote by George Santayana
• 1 Hangman Quote by Robert Burns