Bird Quote by Elie Wiesel

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

“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

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the…

— Albert Camus

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

— Henry Sidgwick

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just…

— Richard Paul Evans

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would…

— Wendy Kaminer

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus