#execution

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#concealed #enemy #enterprise #execution #likely

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#ages #any #blindness #design #enlightened

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. ↗

— Chanakya

#carry #council #determined #doing #execution

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#execution #i #indies #intelligence #make

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#execution #me #witness #worse

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. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#also #bolshevism #death #end #execution

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#anita-blake #executioner #fiction #hunter #jean-claude

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon! ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#arrogance #callousness #catholicism #cold-hearted-people #cruelty