Quote by John Stuart Mill

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

— Albert Camus

“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

“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

“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

“Given though I am to the occasional notion of counter-survival, I didn't enjoy the idea of a stranger assuming the role of my executioner.…

— Anonymous

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

— Lao Tzu

“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

“When it comes to assassination, execution is everything.”

— R.S. Gompertz

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak

“It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.”

— Michael Wood

“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