Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner."
Executioners quotes
Executioners
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Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"He who slanders the victim aids the executioner."
John Ford
Film Director
"Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner."
Rand Paul
Politician
"No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner."
John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner."
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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."
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"The executioner's face is always well hidden."
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"Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite."
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"Each man was his own executioner and his own victim."
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"He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated."
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"Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner."
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"Christianity is religion for the executioner."
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"Revenge proves it's own executioner."
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