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Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Change
Cowardly
Crimes
Air
Most
Executioner
Perjury
Common
Meanest
Breathe
Axe
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley
Wisdom
Technology
Our
Develop
Executioner
Without
Prove
Continue
Prudence
May
Servant
If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
Marlon Brando
Our
Brother
Executioner
Least
His
Us
Let Us
Keeper
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
Eduardo Galeano
Nature
Natural
Victim
Disasters
Executioner
Were
There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
Chance The Rapper
Relationship
Conversation
People
Enemy
Police
About
Supposed
Police Officers
Executioner
Role
Officers
Either
Larger
Need
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
John Donne
Myself
Own
Nothing
My Own
Executioner
Am
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Liam Neeson
Life
Mind
Own
Victim
Down
Kind
Responsible
Would
Someone
Collins
Both
He
Knew
Taking
Almost
Hour
Execution
Executioner
Became
His
Exorcism
Up
Up And Down
Pace
Transformed
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
Lucretius
Mind
Guilty
Though
Absent
Executioner
Dungeon
Scourge
Blows
Apply
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
Thomas Browne
Home
Man
Charity
Enemy
World
Own
Every
Others
Ourselves
Voice
Shall
Towards
Executioner
Greatest
How
Were
His
Expect
Begins
Every Man
I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
Victoria Aveyard
Queen
Girl
First
Teenage
Teenage Girl
Bit
Visual
About
Brush
Arena
Gladiator
Writer
Had
Instead
Idea
Red
Lightning
Like
Executed
Executioner
She
Fitting
Being
Her
Image