#mm

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

— George Ryan

#because #capricious #death #death penalty #i

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#called #catastrophe #day #delta #every

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#budget #candidacy #chairman #committee #done

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone. ↗

— Idries Shah

#god #islam #jesus #mohammed #muslims

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#allowing #areas #attacks #budget #commerce

The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few. ↗

— Afif Safieh

#east #either #few #many #middle

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#effort #friendship #happiness #spontaneity #friendship

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause. ↗

— Edward Said

#been #cause #declare #extremely #hesitated

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#around #bear #brought #continual #difficulties

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#fraternity #friendship #history #ideal #international