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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
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me. -- Sam Hamill
I hate victims who respect their executioners. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. -- John Donne
No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner -- Rand Paul
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner. -- Charles Baudelaire
Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. -- Thomas Browne
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. -- Marlon Brando
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. -- Albert Camus
I'm not your executioner. I'm not your devil and I'm not your God. I'm Charles Manson. -- Charles Manson
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. -- Tim Blixseth
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
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
Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnesses than protecting the condemned prisoner from pain. They are more concerned with appearances than with the reality. -- Jamie Fellner
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
And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners. -- Howard Zinn
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 knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner. -- Marlon Brando
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
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated. -- Marquis de Sade
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears. -- Joseph de Maistre
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. -- Thomas Jefferson
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. -- Tom Robbins
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. -- Tomas Transtromer
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? -- Albert Camus
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. -- Martin Luther
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. -- Jose Rizal
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. -- Joseph Lowery
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. -- George R. R. Martin
The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. -- Ray Bradbury
Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. -- Grant Morrison
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers. -- Albert Camus
Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. -- Ray Bradbury

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