Sean Bellamy Mcnulty

“And I resented you for that,” she went on, “because I’ve always believed hate is such an unworthy emotion. So weak and ultimately pointless.” I marveled briefly at how innocent a life someone would have to have led for such a philosophy to emerge credible and intact, and for a second I loved her for it.”
― Barry Eisler, A Lonely Resurrection

“But unlike Zaire, China punished many people for it; in a five-year stretch, China punished 668,000 Party members for bribery, graft, and embezzlement; it handed down 350 death sentences for corruption, and Wedeman concluded, “At a very basic level, it appears to have prevented corruption from spiraling out of control.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“each day, nearly a quarter of a million Chinese citizens were going online for the first time,”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“And what is more wretched than a man who forgets his benefits and clings to his injuries?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic