Ryan Adkins

“The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favour of a release into the irresponsibility of rights.”
― Kenneth Minogue, On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue

“do nothing in the office; why should he stay there? In plain fact, he had now become a millstone to me, not only useless as a necklace, but afflictive to bear. Yet I was sorry for him. I”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

“Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity, then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener