Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Quotes about capricious (16 Quotes)
Self-control in emotion is most difficult to master. Refusing the dictatorship of capricious emotion, I have found that the ability to exhibit the right emotion often resides with acting on the hard choice.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.
That statement is totally absurd. Look, all we are saying is what the law always has said A city has a right to zone, but zoning has to be non-ridiculous not arbitrary and capricious.
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish when resisted, cruel And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.
Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
O Logic born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most
capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of 'thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.' ... And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.