#scaffold

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #scaffold #which

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#scaffold #throne #truth #wrong

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! ↗

— Mother Jones

#freedom #hang #i #me #scaffold

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. ↗

— Mother Jones

#am #i #i am #pen #please

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#faults #favorite #gigantic #hide #more