Execution Quotes - page 2

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all. (Anton Chekhov)
I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck (Genickschussspezialisten). Each squad shot for about one hour and was then replaced. The persons who still had to be shot were assembled near the place of the execution, and were guarded by members of those squads, which at the moment did not take part in the executions. View quote
Paul Blobel
Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave. View quote
Paul Blobel
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. View quote
Ansel Adams
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. View quote
Julius Streicher
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. View quote
Peter Drucker
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation. (Kenneth E. Iverson)
The practice of first developing a clear and precise definition of a process without regard for efficiency, and then using it as a guide and a test in exploring equivalent processes possessing other characteristics, such as greater efficiency, is very common in mathematics. It is a very fruitful practice which should not be blighted by premature emphasis on efficiency in computer execution. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage... View quote
John Locke
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates. View quote
John Locke
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling. View quote
Paul Arden
The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex. View quote
Roberto Assagioli
The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different. View quote
Frank Luntz
... any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people. View quote
Vince Flynn
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. View quote
Kate Millett
It's a big raised platform at the end of the square, with steps running up to it.” Like a stage?” Evanlyn suggested. "Maybe they're planning to put on a play?” Or an execution,” Horace said. (John Flanagan)
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. View quote
Isaac D'Israeli
Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution. View quote
Dev Anand
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution. View quote
Eike Batista
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. View quote
George Haven Putnam