Alive Quote by John Locke

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

“Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves…

— James Baldwin

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

— Albert Camus

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

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

— Lao Tzu

“I thought in my heart how seldom, even in this world, justice fails to overtake the murderer, and to enforce the righteous judgment of…

— John William Polidori

“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors, governesses, soldiers,…

— Robert Walser

“Every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown.”

— Rod Serling

“In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitely powerful, compassionate, and wise, he could think of…

— Steven Pinker

“Better oblivion chosen of his own will than torture forever according to his brother's.”

— Brent Weeks

“And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”

— Anonymous

“Through many countries and over many seas I have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites, to show this final honour to the dead, and…

— Catullus