Albert Pierrepoint Quotes

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

Albert Pierrepoint

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• We must work-in the words of New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton-to really see each other. Perhaps the reason we struggle as a nation is because we’ve come to see only what we represent, at face value, instead of who we are. We simply must see the people we serve.

  

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• The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

  

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• We should not be acting precipitously to undermine the basic tenet of this program, that has worked well for 70 years by providing a defined, guaranteed benefit.

  

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• A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

  

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• I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

  

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• In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

  

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• There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

  

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• No scientist thinks in formula.

  

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• Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.

  

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• And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

  

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• I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

  

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• But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

  

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• All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

  

  Albert Pierrepoint
  • Murder
  • Convince
  • Prevented