“One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 68
“One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
“I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
“Not everyone does evil, but everyone stands accused.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
El mal no lo hacen todos, pero acusa a todos.
Voces (1943)
“The supreme and only Judge of the universe stands before the tribunal of an earthly judge.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Re Matthew 27:24 (Torrance 1972 edition).
Harmony of Matthew, Mark, Luke
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter I "The Origin of the Dwelling House" Sec. 1
“O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It's so elegant
So intelligent”
T.S. Eliot book The Waste Land
Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 128 et seq.
Yohji Yamamoto (1943) Japanese fashion designer
Kiyokazu Washida. The Past, the Feminine, the Vain in Talking to Myself (2002), Ch. 3: Feedom or the Vain.
Hung Hsiu-chu (1948) Taiwanese politician
Hung Hsiu-chu (2015) cited in " Chu apologizes over Hung turmoil http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/10/14/2003630004" on Taipei Times, 14 October 2015
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)
Context: The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet Revolution, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1920 through 1927 — there are many trials such as these in which the victim was already condemned to death before the trial took place, and it took place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be put to death. These are trials in which the judge, the counsel, the jury, and the witnesses are the criminals, not the accused. For any believer in capital punishment, the fear of an honest mistake on the part of all concerned is cited as the main argument against the final terrible decision to carry out the death sentence. There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgment has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder.
“When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent.”
Klaus Barbie (1913–1991) SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member
Statement at His Trial