Death Quote by Charles C. Mann

“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free…

— Charles C. Mann

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War…

— Steven Pinker

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other…

— Mark Twain

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved…

— John Milton

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular…

— Jean Lorrain

“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with…

— Mary Shelley

The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.

— Robert D. McFadden

What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the…

— Ben Katchor

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

— Tom Stoppard

“A further reason for my hatred of . . . ideologies is quite a primitive one. I have an aversion to killing people for…

— Eric Voegelin

In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and…

— Maia Wojciechowska