"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."

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Source : "Illinois Death Row Emptied". www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2003.

George Ryan

#Illinois Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes #Death Penalty Quotes

“For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.”
“My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.”
“Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.”
“Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.”
“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”
“I am fat, lazy and kind.”
“Over the wine-dark sea.”
“When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.”

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