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“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted of in…

— Baroness Orczy

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

— Herbert Lom

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace…

— William Greider

“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not…

— Victor Hugo

“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

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

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment.…

— Leon Trotsky

The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before…

— Guy Endore

I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one…

— Camille Desmoulins

“We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a guillotine with…

— Victor Hugo

“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't see? The…

— Stewart Stafford

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner.

— Georges Danton