Condemned Quote by Michel Foucault

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

— Albert Camus

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the…

— Camille Paglia

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant,…

— James Russell Lowell

“The man in this picture represents one of a thousand: he can conceive children,t travail in birth with children,-' and nurse them himself when…

— John Bunyan

A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“For by giving it some hard thought, by considering the whole thing calmly, I could see that the trouble with the guillotine was that…

— Albert Camus

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“No noose is good noose’—as the condemned man said on the scaffold.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions…

— Anonymous

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

— Nathanael West

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…

— Paulette Jiles

When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free…

— Anthony Mary Claret

“He had awakened at five that morning, as the condemned man awakens at dawn on the day of his execution,”

— Anonymous

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

— Simone Weil