Barbarity Quote by Stewart Stafford

“The Final Word by Stewart Stafford On the wall of a prominent jacks, Came anonymous, scurrilous attacks, Innuendo and defamatory jibes, Scrawled by cowardly…

— Stewart Stafford

“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

“Towards the end of September the officers went to a man in prison, whom they found quietly playing at cards, and gave him notice…

— Victor Hugo

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

— George R. R. Martin

“The most salacious stories—bones ground in a metal blender or torture-spike eye caps—had the power to disrupt people’s polite complacency about death. Rather than…

— Caitlin Doughty

“When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with…

— Mary Shelley

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved…

— John Milton

“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

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any…

— James Agee

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

“...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

Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

— Robert Barron