“ Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ”
- Lucretius- Copy
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“ The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. ”
- Jack Valenti- Copy
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“ Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. ”
- Eli Wallach- Copy
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“ It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 863
“ Revolt, my child, revolt is a quick axe cleaving dead wood in the forest by night. The woodsman of the day is the executioner. ”
- Alexander Trocchi- Copy
- 413
“ Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ”
- General Omar Bradley- Copy
- 520
“ The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen. She was an ideal victim. I've met quite a few like her. They're just crying out, not just to be killed, but also tortured. She seemed very parasitic, a psychic vampire. ”
- Anton LaVey- Copy
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“ In all of his suffering, as in all of his life and ministry, Jesus refused to defend himself with force or with violence. He endured violence and cruelty so that God's love might be fully manifest and the world might be reconciled to the One from whom it had become estranged… ”
- The Challenge of Peace- Copy
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“ On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: "I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." To the executioner: "Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty… ”
- Unknown- Copy
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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- Copy
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