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“Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.”
― Barry Jones, The Penalty is Death: state power, law, and justice

“But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues.
The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start crying
ignoring the collective good and stiffing oracles, who depend on tips
refusing to save the city
letting four attendants take the hit
failing to bring a vehicle to a complete stop before proceeding into the intersection”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“Climate collapse has been a racist issue for at least five hundred years. Colonialism made it so.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings

“Nobody tells you, as a child, that your initiation into womanhood might come at the price of a craving for misuse and violence; that you can protect yourself from others, but that nobody can protect you from yourself.”
― Jessica Friedmann, Things That Helped: Essays