Common people Quote by John Dos Passos

“If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about…

— Evan Minton

“Jesus was beaten, tortured, and spit on, and then he suffered a horrific death to pay for the sins of the world.”

— Irene Garcia

“More to the point, what was the lesson that the first Christians drew from crucifixion? Today such a barbarity might galvanize people into opposing…

— Steven Pinker

“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men.”

— Colonel H. S. Jarrett

“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

“We do not need more frightening punishments and more withering scoldings. We need the all-sufficiency of Jesus applied in rich measure to our deepest…

— Raymond C. Ortlund Jr

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“An early execution of Jesus Christ would have been not just an early execution and collapse of Christianity, but also an abrupt end to…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the inalienable rights…

— Josef Pieper

“Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to accept Jesus…

— Steven Pinker

“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”

— Lao Tzu