Alberto

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Fame, for example, consists of the opinions of others and requires that we must live our life as others wish.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“You know as well as we do that right is a question that only has meaning in relations between equals in power. In the real world, the strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Graham Allison, Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?—A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to War Between Great Powers

“The German philosopher Nietzsche taught us that “the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do.”
― Graham Allison, Destined For War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?—A Critical Examination of Historical Patterns Leading to War Between Great Powers