Condemned Quote by Tanith Lee

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

— Albert Camus

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak

“There are but a few that look on themselves as concerned at all, just like a company of simple sheep in a fat pasture.…

— John Fox

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

— Kate Mulgrew

“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

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

— Elie Wiesel

“Executioners don’t hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same. Because they’re ordered to. الجلادون لا يكرهون الناس الذين يعدمونهم ,إنهم يعدمونهم جميعاً بالطريقة نفسها لأنهم مأمورون بذلك.”

— Bernhard Schlink

There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a…

— Laozi

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

— Charles Baudelaire

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

— Siegbert Tarrasch