Executing State

Famous quotes containing the words executing and/or state:

“Christ’s crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)