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Executioners Quotes

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

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

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

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

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

No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.

"The Crisis in a Nutshell: Quotes of the Week" by Aswini Periyasamy, www.newyorker.com. March 08, 2013.

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

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

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

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

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.364, Penguin

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

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

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.153, Bantam

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15”, p.1330, Penguin

Revenge proves it's own executioner.

John Ford, William Gifford (1827). “The Dramatic Works”, p.329

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.44, Friedrich Nietzsche

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.60, Schocken