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Hangman Quotes by Steely Dan
- The hangman isn't hanging, so they put you on the street.
- 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.
More Hangman Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — George Santayana
- Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a… — 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… — Robert Jordan