Crime Quote by Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“so many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son.”

— Edna O'Brien

“I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always…

— Joyce Cary

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

— Wendell Phillips

“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain…

— Victor Hugo

“Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in…

— Bertrand Russell

“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain…

— Victor Hugo

“The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated…

— Victor Hugo

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

— George Bernard Shaw

The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

— Joseph James Ettor

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

— Olympe de Gouges