Scaffold Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
— Joseph James Ettor
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is…
— Lucy Parsons
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy…
— Virginia Woolf
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am…
— H. L. Mencken
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
— Thomas Adams
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Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
— Olympe de Gouges
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be…
— Victor Hugo
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with…
— Horace Mann
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
— Wendell Phillips
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I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I…
— David Walker
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down,…
— Andres Segovia
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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
— John Mason Brown
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O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can…
— Walt Whitman
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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
— James Russell Lowell
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He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to…
— C.S. Lewis
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide…
— Albert Camus
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Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said…
— James M. Barrie
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
— Pierre Corneille
Who Wrote These Scaffold Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 35 Scaffold Quotes, led by these top contributors: