Executioner Quotes

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.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

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.

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

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Revenge proves its own executioner.