Sergei Lavrov

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

Russian Diplomat

Fidel Castro

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Statesman

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Filipino Writer

Justin Gatlin

I think people need to stop looking at trying to be the judge, the jury and executioner and let the system do its job.

American Athlete

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Swedish Writer

Marlon Brando

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

American Actor

Charles Baudelaire

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

French Poet

John Donne

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

British Poet

Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

French Philosopher

John Ford

American Director

The term can evoke historical methods of capital punishment, such as beheading or hanging.

Historical Context

Executioner refers specifically to a person appointed to carry out death sentences, not other jobs.

Job Specificity

The word often carries a negative connotation, implying a grim or dark aspect of the role.

Negative Connotation

Executioner can be used metaphorically to describe inanimate objects or concepts that 'kill' or end something.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'executioner' metaphorically adds drama or gravity to literary works.

Literary Flair

The word can bring strong emotional imagery, especially when used in a figurative sense.

Emotive Imagery

 to kind of hide themselves when they were going to meet their lovers. And then, of course, there's the legend, there's fantasy. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the grim reaper. There's the image of the hoodie connected to the executioner. So there's the dark side of the hoodie.

The 3,000-year history...

 to experience what the ancients called a beautiful death not to cringe not to shrink from the moment that they knew that they're going to die but rather to bear their neck to the executioner for the other gladiator who is going to kill