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• 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

  Country, Brother, Thinking

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

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• I probably wouldn't have done [ Fred Leuchter story] if it was just a story about an executioner or a holocaust denier, but the combination of the two elements was irresistible. So yeah, I find it strange that there are so many people out there now.

  Errol Morris

  Two, People, Holocaust

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Brother, Blessing, Hands

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.231, Vintage

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• It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part-- time and space and heart's weariness are the blander executioners or human connection.

  Gail Caldwell

  Distance, Taken, Heart

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

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Towns, Murder

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

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• The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

  Anne Boleyn

  Believe, Experts, Necks

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• What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

  Albert Camus

  Friends, Sympathy, Heartache

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• For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

  John Locke

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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

  Tom Robbins

  Faces, Defeated, Jokes

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

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• But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

  Honore de Balzac

  Falling In Love, Heart, Feelings

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• Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

  Robert Barron

  Bob, Faces, Problem

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• 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

  Children, Yesterday, Police

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• 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

  Home, Remember, Demon

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 22, 2014

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• How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

  John Flavel

  Christian, Events, Sober

  John Flavel (1840). “Divine Conduct: Or, The Mystery of Providence, Wherein the Being and Efficacy of Providence are Asserted and Vindicated ... and the Proper Course of Improving All Providences Pointed Out”, p.19

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

  Rand Paul

  Judging, President, Jury

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

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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• 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

  Judging, Ridiculous, Wells

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• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  Pierre Charron

  Children, Revenge, Fire

  "Treasury of Thought: Forming an encyclopædia of quotation from ancient and modern authors". Book edited by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 123, 1894.

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• 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

  Country, Real, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.353

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• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

  Tim Blixseth

  Motivational, Greatness, Ideas

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• Revenge proves it's own executioner.

  John Ford

  Revenge, Prove It, Prove

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

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• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

  Alexander Herzen

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

  Paul Reubens

  Real, Party, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.

  Jean Houston

  Warrior, Thinking, Long

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• 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

  Reading, Kids, Years

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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