Public Executions Quotes

#1. It is mandatory from elementary school to attend public executions. Often classes would be cancelled so students could go.

Hyeonseo Lee

#2. The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Lu Xun

#3. We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play soccer there. That was where they used to hold public executions for soldiers who deserted the army and members of the Kurdish resistance.

Hassan Blasim

#4. In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Intellect is stronger than cannon.

Theodore Parker

#7. God is far too wild for neat and clean.

Kevin Garcia

#8. Because creative people aren't always in charge. And when they do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge. They're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut, yelling Wheeeee.

Stephen King

#9. We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Kenneth Oppel

#10. We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kinky Friedman

#11. People like Lain have lived in the dark so long, when they see light, they tend to close their eyes.

Joseph R. Lallo

#12. [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?

Phil Donahue

#13. No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Ouida

#14. Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

Ken Stott

#15. Speak, speak, speak,
& remember that whenever
anyone's liberty to speak is denied,
your liberty is denied also, & your place
is where the attack is..

Voltairine De Cleyre

#16. All those years, waiting for the Army, and it turns out the Army is us.

Justin Cronin

#17. Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become," I stopped in my tracks. This one philosophy was going to change my entire life.

Hal Elrod

#18. Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.

Edward Gibbon

#19. I guess that's the difference in being loved the right way and the wrong way. You either feel tethered to an anchor ... or you feel like you're flying.

Colleen Hoover

#20. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

A.J. Darkholme