Sentenced Quotes
55 quotes by 50 authors
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— Brendan Behan
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Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes…
— Kathleen Brown
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without…
— Bridget of Sweden
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Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the…
— Brad Wilkerson
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I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept. 11. But after…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The…
— Sarah Silverman
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Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being…
— Moses Harrison
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Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.
— Michael Bolton
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I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged…
— Assata Shakur
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
— Lorenzo Snow
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Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our…
— John Flavel
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You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men…
— August Spies
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You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is…
— Lester Roloff
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I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of abortion can equally…
— Jennifer O'Neill
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I believe that the souls of believers are at their death made perfectly holy, and immediately taken to glory: that at the end of this…
— Roger Sherman
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A man sentenced to death obtained a reprieve by assuring the king he would teach his majesty's horse to fly within the year - on…
— Bernard Baruch
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I lived a dangerous life. Stealing cars, I could have been shot. Robbing people, I could have been killed. Nothing in existence holds any terror…
— Richard Ramirez
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Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
— Gary Gilmore
Who Wrote These Sentenced Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 55 Sentenced Quotes, led by these top contributors: