Quote by Jonathan Schell

“Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.”

— Lao Tzu

“The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. by this, and only this, we have existed.”

— T.S. Eliot

“one cannot be held forever to a less-than-honorable act, after a life of great integrity, just because of one moment of weakness.”

— Andrea Camilleri

“Any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable.”

— Grant Cardone

“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?”

— Piper Kerman

“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.”

— Auberon Waugh

“...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

“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.”

— Liu Cixin

“unpredictable. No conscience; no remorse.”

— Douglas E. Richards

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.”

— Nelson DeMille

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury…

— Mary Shelley