(1881 quotes found)
“Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power”
George Washington
“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed”
Benjamin Franklin
“A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.”
Dustin Hoffman
“Your Honor, I am in a difficult position. The news media has already executed me and buried me...If anyone is hypnotized, the people are hypnotized by the lies being told to them...There is no attorney in the world who can represent me as a person. I have to do it myself.”
Charles Manson
“I constructed a theoretically perfect thrust, but I eliminated a few intermediate movements so that nobody could execute it. It has the appearance of being perfect”
Arturo Perez Reverte
“Handled creatively, getting fired allows an executive to actually experience a sense of relief that he never wanted the job he has lost.”
Frank P. Louchheim
“The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere”
John Mortimer
“The severity of the laws prevents their execution.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.”
Paul Klee
“The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.”
Marian Wright Edelman
