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Quotes About Executioners

Even the written evidence offered by the executioners tells us that. And it ended with Anastasia not being buried with the rest of her family." Yakov paused. "The DNA experts can speculate all they want, but they still can't say with absolute certainty that any of the bones later found belonged to her. I doubt they ever will." I felt dazed. "How can I know that your version of events is true?
~ Glenn Meade
The hours of this night begin to dwindle and now, with every second that pauses on the clock, the blood at the bottom of my heart begins to boil, to bubble, and I know that no matter what I do anguish is about to overtake me in this house, as naked and silver as that knife which Giovanni will be facing soon. My executioners are here with me, walking up and down with me, washing things, and packing and drinking from my bottle.
~ James Baldwin
How does one address... the master of the vampire executioners? My lord? Your grace? Your stakeness?
~ Colleen Gleason
Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier's profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that's true – but it's too true, it's true in eternity, but not yet for us.
~ Henri Barbusse
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
~ Martin Luther
It has been forever that people aspire towards liberty and rejoiced averytime they lost it. The mortals never loved with passion except those who handcuffed them . And whom they turn into myth? The executioners of their freedom
~ Cioran
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Executioners and army elders in Russia are allowed to curse. His Majesty exempted them in recognition of their difficult professions. Danilkov
~ Vladimir Sorokin
He needed some aromatherapy to clear his mind. He needed some time in the sauna. He felt stupid. He had never before felt stupid. His mother said stupidity should be a capital offense, except with so many stupid people everywhere you looked, there wouldn't be enough steel in the world to build all the necessary guillotine blades or enough executioners to operate them.
~ Dean Koontz
Vladimir Zazubrin, in 1918 a deserter from the White forces and later a lively writer of fiction and memoirs, shot by Stalin in 1938 for his frankness, recalled the hard life of the Cheka executioners: White, grey carcasses (undressed people) collapsed onto the floor.
~ Donald Rayfield
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
~ Unknown
The executioners helped Mary's gentlewomen to undress her down to her petticoat.
~ John Guy
that if one of the executioners had not moved them, they would have been cut off.
~ John Guy
Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.
~ Marcel Proust
If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
~ Martin Luther
Then I heard Him call out in a loud voice, saying, “Draw near, O executioners of the city, each with a weapon of destruction in hand.”
~ Ezekiel 9:1