Executioners Quotes

“Executioners don’t hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same. Because they’re ordered to.
الجلادون لا يكرهون الناس الذين يعدمونهم ,إنهم يعدمونهم جميعاً بالطريقة نفسها لأنهم مأمورون بذلك.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Pray and wait like Our Lord in Gethsemane, that's all he could do, but at least Christ knew the hour, he did not. That would be one of the quiet agonies too, waiting for the metaphorical executioners to come, not knowing when the hour would strike and from quarter they would appear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Kaci żyją między ocalałymi. Albo w ocalałych. W jednym ciele i kat, i ofiara. Widują się codziennie. Na ulicy, na bazarze, w pracy, w lustrze.”
― Wojciech Tochman, Pianie kogutów, płacz psów

“I had the feeling that if she could have moved all around me, been in front and behind and on both sides at once, that was what she would do. She would close me off, she would peer into me until she found whatever she wanted, and got it rearranged.”
― Alice Munro

“You can't bring someone back if he's been executed through a miscarriage of justice. And if there is a death penalty, then you need executioners, even if they merely push a button. That means that in punishing murderers, we inevitably create new ones.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Don't die before you're dead