Scaffold Quotes

35 Scaffold quotes by 32 unique authors

• The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement. — Joseph James Ettor
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum. — Olympe de Gouges
• 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
• The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. — Pierre Corneille
• 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
• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. — Wendell Phillips
• 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
• 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
• I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown
• 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
• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. — James Russell Lowell
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. — Pierre Corneille
• Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society. — George Bernard Shaw
• The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell. — Thomas Jordan Jarvis
• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in… — Maurice de Vlaminck
• In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about… — Honore de Balzac
• If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! — Mother Jones

Who Wrote These Scaffold Quotes

32 authors contributed a total of 35 Scaffold Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Pierre Corneille
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Mother Jones
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Lucy Parsons
• 1 Scaffold Quote by William Edmondstoune Aytoun
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Wendell Phillips
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Thomas Jordan Jarvis
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Thomas Adams
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Olympe de Gouges
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Maurice de Vlaminck
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Mary Harris Jones
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Marquis de Sade
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Joseph James Ettor
• 1 Scaffold Quote by John Mason Brown
• 1 Scaffold Quote by James Russell Lowell
• 1 Scaffold Quote by James M. Barrie
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Horace Mann
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Honore de Balzac
• 1 Scaffold Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Scaffold Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Scaffold Quote by E L Konigsburg