I Cannot Be Silent, May 31, 1908:

„Before being hangmen, Generals, Public Prosecutors, Judges, Premier, or Czar-are you not men? To-day allowed a peep into God's world, tomorrow ceasing to be. (You hangmen of all grades, in particular, who have evoked and are evoking special hatred, should remember this.) Is it possible that you who have had this short glimpse of God's world (for even if you be not murdered, death is always close behidn us all), is it possible that in your lucid moments you do not see that your vocation in life cannot be to torment and kill men, yourselves trembling with fear of being killed, lying to yourselves, to others, and to God, assuring yourselves and others that by participating in these things you are doing an important and grand work for the welfare of millions?“