Hangman Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
— Luther Burbank
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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
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
— Seneca the Younger
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
— Eli Wallach
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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
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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.
— Neil Young
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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
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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
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Hangman is great, it teaches you that by saying the wrong thing can end someone's life.
— Ali
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The hangman isn't hanging, so they put you on the street.
— Steely Dan
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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
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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: