Executioners Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Executioners May Victim
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to… — Jay Bennett Copy Share Image
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you… — Tom Heinsohn Copy Share Image
In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as… — Kirby Page Copy Share Image
“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his… — John Locke Copy Share Image
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls.… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We… — Greg Norman Copy Share Image
