Alex Tsay

“You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's" jailing the criminal; the emphasis would necessarily be on compelling the criminal to make restitution to the victim of his crime. The present system, in which the victim is not recompensed but instead has to pay taxes to support the incarceration of his own attacker — would be evident nonsense in a world that focuses on the defense of property rights and therefore on the victim of crime.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

“To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step toward seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.”
― Robin Hobb, Golden Fool

“If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal