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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me…

— Thomas More

“...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

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

— George R. R. Martin

“Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, And I shall conqueror be. I…

— George Matheson

“Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied…

— Thomas Wyatt

“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for…

— Dickens, Charles

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

— Lao Tzu

“So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he…

— Victor Hugo

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un…

— Jean Rostand

“In the immortal words of Loshain P'stane, 'If anyone reads this without permission, he will be most certainly and brutally slain. Or at the…

— Andrew Peterson

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

— Albert Camus

“I am the wind heralding death, the instrument of justice sent by our Prince to carry out the sentence pronounced on you by our…

— Christine Feehan