Electric Chair Quotes:

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Encouraging, Pears, Key To Happiness

You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

- Bobby Slayton

topic: Crazy, America, People, Retard, Electric Chair

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Funny, Family, Growing Up, Wardens, Electric Chair

If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?

- Michael Badnarik

topic: Winning, Giving, Fifty, Injection, Lethal Injection

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

- Sylvester Stallone

topic: Inspirational, Teacher, School, Electric Chair, Junior High

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Justice, Gentleman, Dying, Electric Chair

Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.

- Jay Leno

topic: Girl, Daughter, Dad, Electric Chair, Cpr

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.36, Beacon Press

topic: Punishment, Forgiving, Finals, Electric Chair, Death Row

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

- Rodney Dangerfield

source: Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.35, Zondervan

topic: Funny, Family, Uncles, Funny Family, Electric Chair

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Electric Chair, Hang Ups

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.177, New Directions Publishing

topic: Sports, Suicide, Fashion, Infanticide, Syphilis

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

- Lenny Bruce

topic: Jesus, Children, School, Anti Religious, Catholic School

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

- Andy Warhol

source: "Andy Warhol: In His Own Words". Book by Mike Wrenn, 1991.

topic: Living Room Wall, Living Room, Electric Chair, Drapes, Room Wall

There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

- Shia LaBeouf

source: "Shia LaBeouf took acid for film role" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2012.

topic: Men, Guy, Acting, Electric Chair, Acid Trip

A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

topic: Home, Learning, School, Decorating, Homeschooling

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

topic: Revenge, Stories, Alive, Electric Chair, Seeking Revenge

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

- Jay Leno

topic: Giving, Guy, Want, Itching, Electric Chair

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Baseball, Art, Father, Roman Emperor, Constantine

I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

- Errol Morris

source: Source: collider.com

topic: New York, Punishment, Holocaust, Electric Chair, Holocaust Denial

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

- Ernest Gaines

topic: Justice, Gentleman, Dying, Electric Chair

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

- Red Skelton

topic: Funny Marriage, Gadgets, Bread, Electric Chair, Blenders

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

- Billy Joel

topic: Dirty, Quality, Remember, Dirty Jokes, Electric Chair

Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.

- Jack Black

source: "Actor Jack Black". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2012.

topic: Cutting, Should Have, Judging People, Not Judging, Electric Chair

To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

- Pyotr Kapitsa

topic: Peace, War, Talking, Electric Chair, Atomic Energy

Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?

- Dave Attell

topic: Talking, Punishment, Car, Electric Chair

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

- J. Edgar Hoover

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Debate, Crime, Chairs, Electric Chair

My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

- Zach Anner

topic: Father, Cities, Three, Electric Chair, Pompeii

When Wikileaks comes out, which I have nothing to do with, they're giving classified information. They're giving information about Hillary [Clinton] cheating on the debates. No one mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates. Seriously, can you imagine if I received the questions? It would be the electric chair, ok?

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Cheating, Giving, Wikileaks, Classified Information, Electric Chair

Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

- Tiffanie DeBartolo

topic: Blessed, Offering, Iron, Iron Maiden, Electric Chair