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• I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped over the line, usually only because someone has PMS. You want justice, Themis’s office is down the hall on the left. You want death and dismemberment, I’m your man…or rather god. (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Pms, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.115, Macmillan

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• 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

  Country, Dating, Ironic

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1111, Penguin

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• Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sky, Thank You God, Lasts

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• It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

  Joseph Lowery

  Virginia, Florida, Texas

  "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". The Pew Forum, www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

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• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

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• We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Thinking, Games

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• Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Victim

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.60, Schocken

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• ...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

  Integrity, Men, Swings

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.28, Bantam

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• I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Order, Soldier, Trying

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.623, Penguin

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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

  Vampire, Anita Blake, Knows

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.364, Penguin

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• 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

  Gun, Romance, Waiting

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reality, Mind, Littles

  Samael Aun Weor (2008). “Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Gnosis, the Consciousness, and Learning How to Think”, Glorian Publishing

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• If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Death, Would Be, Execution

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• Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Exercise, Errors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 16, 1799.

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• I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

  Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka (2017). “13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers”, p.176, LeBooks Editora

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• 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

  Cheer, Thinking, Anchors

  FaceBook post by Geraldo Rivera from May 24, 2013

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• If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Fire, Doctors

  "To the Christian Nobility of the German States" by Martin Luther, 1520.

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• 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

  Regret, People, Rats

  Last words, 1794.

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• On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'

  Thomas More

  Life, Success, Honesty

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• We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

  Tanith Lee

  Primitive, Rite

  "Sabella".

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• 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

  Cutting, Kansas, Doe

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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

  Land, Numbers, People

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