Top 100 Executioner Quotes
#1. Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?
Joe Hill
#2. I very much hope that the United States will finally ... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.
Sergei Lavrov
#3. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
#4. We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
Michel Onfray
#5. He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.
Georgi Vladimov
#6. Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#7. The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.
Paul Reubens
#8. There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a master carpenter. Of those who try to carve wood like a master carpenter, there are few who do not injure their hands.
Laozi
#9. I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson.
Charles Manson
#10. For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.
John Locke
#11. It is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still in the power of the executioner.
John Stuart Mill
#12. Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?
-Piter De Vries
Frank Herbert
#13. Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
Geraldo Rivera
#14. Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.
Megan Whalen Turner
#15. Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.
T.R. Neff
#16. You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming.
Luo Guanzhong
#17. Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.
George Herbert
#18. Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
#19. My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing.
Georges Danton
#20. Whether we commit seppuku by our own hands or are crucified by the executioner, our ultimate end is to die. This is a band of death, but death with honor!
John Allyn
#21. I would find a way to save souls while eradicating demons from this world. I'd find a way to save my own soul. I just had to.
Emily Chaucer.
Demon executioner.
Human savior.
I could only hope.
Ketley Allison
#23. But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
John Donne
#24. The Executioner shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine Sans Tete
Kris Waldherr
#25. We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.
Albert Camus
#26. Revenge proves its own executioner.
John Ford
#27. 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
#28. Your customers are the judge, jury, and executioner of your value proposition. They will be merciless if you don't find fit!
Alexander Osterwalder
#29. If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.
Lao-Tzu
#30. I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#31. Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in the course of many years
Anton Chekhov
#32. Cancer was a merciless executioner. It stripped away dignity and autonomy, leaving only pain and horror in its wake.
Catie Rhodes
#33. No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner
Rand Paul
#34. 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
#35. I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#36. Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#37. He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.
Leon Trotsky
#38. Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
Elie Wiesel
#39. All my contemporaries
hundred-and-fivers or convicts
will tell you how we lived
in barely sentient fear, raising
children for the executioner,
prison, or the torture chamber.
Anna Akhmatova
#40. You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him
George Plimpton
#41. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando
#42. Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be?
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#43. I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button.
Mark McKinnon
#45. She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.
Sarah MacLean
#46. In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.
Kirby Page
#47. Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.
Claire McCaskill
#48. You know how the joke goes: On the way to the execution ground, a condemned criminal complained that it was going to rain, and the executioner said, 'What have you got to worry about? We're the ones who've got to go back through it!
Liu Cixin
#49. Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of self-limitation.
Darmie Orem
#50. I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard
#51. In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None, however, have provided the pleasure of touching so many people from so many lands as have the Executioners.
Don Pendleton
#52. It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
Charles Baudelaire
#53. Because when it comes to me and mine, I am the judge. I am the jury. And if need be, I am the motherfucking executioner.
T.M. Frazier
#54. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Greg Norman
#55. 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
#56. The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the intellectual, moral and institutional foundations of the order.
Ivan Krastev
#57. If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
Caryl Chessman
#58. For some, death is the midwife to faith. For others, it is faith's executioner.
Rick Yancey
#59. I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one whokills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?
Anton Chekhov
#61. At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.
Elie Wiesel
#62. Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
Tanith Lee
#63. Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel
Alfred De Vigny
#64. Do not look to the executioner for the reason his blade falls. And
Brandon Sanderson
#65. Cold-blooded? Me? Hardly. I'm the ultimate purveyor of justice, an executioner with a flawless track record and crystal clear conscience.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#66. The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
Hannah Arendt
#67. I'll begin with the most basic.What are you?"
"Pussy Cat Doll?" she asked, immediately doing a slow headshake at his look. "Judge, jury and
executioner." He scowled. Her eyes lit up. "Transient! What? Really. No? Babe in Toyland?
Kresley Cole
#68. You do that, and you'll be wishing for death before her body even hits the ground. The Gatekeeper is coming. Executioner for the Feral Breed, brother to the Beast, and mated to the woman you hold against her will. You've fucked up, friend.
Ellis Leigh
#69. I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#70. Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and as it were, his owne executioner.
Thomas Browne
#71. Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Juvenal
#72. I just don't know whether he's the condemned man or the executioner.
Paula Hawkins
#73. And so I have remained, in relentless pursuit of truth and excellence, an unforgiving executioner of the bogus, an abomination to all but those few people who have overcome their aversion to truth in order to free whatever is good in them.
Louise Brooks
#74. [W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
E. O. Wilson
#76. The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
Anne Boleyn
#77. If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Pierre Charron
#79. Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
Gore Vidal
#80. I'll go get you something for the pain. (Lorelei)
An executioner and his ax would help. (Jack)
Kinley MacGregor
#81. I've had worse. (Draven)
Such as? (Simon)
The day my heart was ripped out of me. I assure you the king's executioner could never equal the pain I felt the day I saw our mother die. (Draven)
Kinley MacGregor
#82. Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#83. Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.
Joan Of Arc
#84. Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
Robert Barron
#85. God has a way of taking messed-up situations and flipping them on their heads.'
'Oh yeah? Give me one example.'
'Turning an executioner's cross into a symbol of hope.
Katie Ganshert
#86. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. How do you know they're all evil and deserve to die? Who made you judge, jury and executioner?
David Estes
#88. Rachel scowled. "You've known Mrak longer than anyone alive. You know what I know - the things he's done, the things he hides from everyone else."
The Curator's smile did not wane as he shrugged. "Indeed I do. But judge-jury-executioner is not my calling. I'm just the gatekeeper.
S.G. Night
#89. It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.
Samael Aun Weor
#90. Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
John Ford
#91. I was the badass Consort and he was the grim Pack's executioner. Hugging him in the hallways would be entirely inappropriate.
Ilona Andrews
#92. Such was the discipline of Elizabeth's court that any man who struck another within it had his right hand chopped off by the executioner in a most horrible manner.
William Shakespeare
#93. What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?
V.E Schwab
#94. His face was like a law of nature - a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint.
Ayn Rand
#95. In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,
non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,
judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's
order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.
William Safire
#96. 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
#97. Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
Eduardo Galeano
#98. Love dies in different ways. For most, it is a slow, agonizing death. Meche, however, cut her love the same way the executioner might chop a head: with a single, accurate swing.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#99. In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.
Edward Gibbon
#100. The executioner's face is always well hidden.
Bob Dylan
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