Gallows Quotes

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The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

On the gallows tree, all men are brothers.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

Yet, like the sea and the gallows, London refuses nobody.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

If you are an executioner, don't expect to have a friend closer than a gallows!

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He’ll Swing!

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

I made my own house be my gallows.

The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones.