#execution

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#decentralization #execution #judgement #justice #death

The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #death

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#always #because #copy #e-commerce #easy

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#because #buried #chair #dead #electric

Execution is everything. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#execution

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated. ↗

— Caryl Chessman

#capital #capital punishment #day #defeated #exactly

Revenge proves its own executioner. ↗

— John Ford

#own #proves #revenge

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. ↗

— William Godwin

#considerable #execution #first #implies #meditation

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#finds #great #great talent #happiness #really

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#effective #execution #i #know #laws