"Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge."

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Source : Albert Pierrepoint (1974). “Executioner, Pierrepoint”

Albert Pierrepoint

#Revenge Quotes #Views Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK
“I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine for a woman to ask a man out, well, it's crap.' I look down at my watch. 'Seven fifty-three p.m.' 'What does that mean?' 'Official time of death of feminism,' I reply, and mom laughs.”
“The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, itâ€™s that theyâ€™re dog, and thatâ€™s what dogs do.”
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
“...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.”
“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Source : Speech in the Senate, 14 March 1834
“The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.”

Source : Odell Shepard (1930). “The lore of the unicorn”, Outlet

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