Executioners Quotes

• He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

  Leon Trotsky

  Victim, Aids, Slander

  Leon Trotsky (2000). “Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality”, p.23, Resistance Books

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• I hate victims who respect their executioners.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fake People, Hate, Judging

  Les S‚questr‚s d'Altona (The Condemned of Altona, 1960) act 1, sc. 1

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• It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Albert Camus

  Wisdom, Peace, Jobs

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• The executioner's face is always well hidden.

  Bob Dylan

  Expression, Faces, Wells

  Song: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

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• How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

  Jean Racine

  Beautiful, Bible, Jesus

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• Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Enemy, Charity Begins At Home

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.86

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• But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

  John Donne

  Sabotage, My Own, Self Sabotage

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• Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

  Gore Vidal

  May, Victim

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

  Liam Neeson

  Mind, Pace, Exorcism

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

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• Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

  Marquis de Sade

  Hope, Old Wounds, Soul

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.10, Routledge

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• All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Order, Giving, Thrones

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  If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

  Marlon Brando

  Brother, Keepers, Ifs

  Marlon Brando's speech written for the Academy Awards, as it appeared in the New York Times, March 30, 1973.

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• Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

  Juvenal

  Secret, Scourge, Shaking

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Nice, Being Nice, Victim

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• Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

  Thomas Browne

  Home, Men, Voice

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.86

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• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, Technology, Advancement

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  World, Want, Bed

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 6, 1951.

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• Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.

  Jamie Fellner

  Pain, Reality, Prison

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

  Thomas Browne

  Charity, Charitable, Charity Begins At Home

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

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• Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

  Thomas Browne

  Home, Voice, World

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.86

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• Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Punishment, Doe

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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