How long would authority
How long would authority … exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. Emma Goldman
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How long would authority … exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. Emma Goldman
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck. Eli Wallach
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. Friedrich Nietzsche
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call … Read more
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. Douglas William Jerrold
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented … Read more
Not nature, but the genius of mankind, has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. Carl Jung
The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness. Augusto Roa Bastos
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman’s thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land’s grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through … Read more
It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam … Read more