Comparison Quote by Nellie Bly

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the…

— Bhagat Singh

[On travel:] Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?

— Marguerite Yourcenar

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

— Paul Eldridge

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

— Janet Fitch

“I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and…

— Charles Dickens

Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their…

— Fouad Riad

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came…

— Stephen King

“And with an average trial length at the time of eight and a half minutes, it is certain that many of the people sent…

— Steven Pinker

“The papers were always talking about the debt owed to society. According to them, it had to be paid . But that doesn't speak…

— Albert Camus

“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands…

— Lisa R. Cohen

“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state. But the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin