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  • I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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  • 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
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  • Revenge proves its own executioner. -- John Ford
  • But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. -- John Donne
  • It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim. -- Eduardo Galeano
  • If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. -- Marlon Brando
  • If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -- Omar N. Bradley
  • Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. -- Lucretius
  • Drone attacks subvert the rule of law - we become judge, jury, and executioner - at the push of a button. -- Mark McKinnon
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Thomas Browne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Revenge proves it's own executioner. -- John Ford
  • Christianity is religion for the executioner. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge. -- Juvenal
  • The executioner's face is always well hidden. -- Bob Dylan
  • Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner. -- John Ford
  • He who slanders the victim aids the executioner. -- Leon Trotsky
  • Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite. -- Tanith Lee
  • Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner. -- Gore Vidal
  • No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner -- Rand Paul
  • The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender -- Anne Boleyn
  • I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
  • Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. -- Thomas Browne
  • If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson. -- Charles Manson
  • Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off. -- Robert Barron
  • Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said. -- Joan of Arc
  • Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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