Scaffold Quotes

35 quotes by 32 authors

• 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
• I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. — Mother Jones
• The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed… — Marquis de Sade
• They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that… — E L Konigsburg
• Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears… — Alexandre Dumas
• IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis… — Vladimir Nabokov
• Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth… — Anne Rice
• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an… — Alan Lightman
• I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. — Mary Harris Jones
• But whether on the scaffold high Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! — Unknown Author
• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found… — Lucy Parsons

Who Wrote These Scaffold Quotes

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

• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Mother Jones
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Lucy Parsons
• 2 Scaffold Quotes by Pierre Corneille
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Marquis de Sade
• 1 Scaffold Quote by E L Konigsburg
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Alexandre Dumas
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Anne Rice
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Alan Lightman
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Mary Harris Jones
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Unknown Author
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Joseph James Ettor
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 Scaffold Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Thomas Adams
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Olympe de Gouges
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Horace Mann
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Wendell Phillips
• 1 Scaffold Quote by David Walker
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Andres Segovia
• 1 Scaffold Quote by John Mason Brown
• 1 Scaffold Quote by Walt Whitman
• 1 Scaffold Quote by James Russell Lowell
• 1 Scaffold Quote by William Edmondstoune Aytoun