Top Executed Quotes
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
John Howard
All Executed Quotes
Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson 
92% of people like this quote
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton 
79% of people like this quote
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington 
76% of people like this quote
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin 
64% of people like this quote
This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
John Howard 
57% of people like this quote
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
Ricky Gervais 
56% of people like this quote
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
George Henry Lewes 
56% of people like this quote
A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.
Ernst Mach 
56% of people like this quote
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Joshua ChamberlainNorman LammJohn HowardHuey NewtonAlexander HaigFranco HarrisRobert CapaJoan MiroThomas ReidJohn SimonJoseph StoryJames WolfePeter BenensonRicky GervaisJohn Hawkins
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