Jeaniene Frost Quotes

Anybody can kill anybody.

All those against the revolution must disappear and quickly be executed.

Every kind of atrocity was inflicted upon their captives. They hung up the noblest and best-looking women naked, cutting off their breasts and stitching them to their mouths, so that the women appeared to be eating them and after this they impaled them on sharp stakes, run up the body.

The poor sinner was weak and ill, so she had to be led to the scaffold. When she sat down on the chair, Master Valtin the executioner walked around her like a cat walks around hot broth. He held the sword a span from her neck, took aim, and struck the blow, but missed her neck and struck off a slice of her head as big as a coin, knocking her from the chair. Then the poor soul got up quicker than she had sat down, this blow having done no harm to her. Then she started to beg to be let go, as she had been so brave. But to no avail. She had to sit down again. The assistant then wanted to take the sword from Master Valtin and strike her himself, but the master would not permit this and struck her again himself. The second blow was a little stronger and she fell from the chair. Then he cut off her head as she lay on the scaffold. The executioner received his reward as he went. He would have been stoned to death if the town guard and their arms had not rescued him. As it was, much blood was already streaming from his head.

I was glad when the invalids were executed

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

Hang those that talk of fear.

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?