Ksenia

“Every loneliness is a pinnacle”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“There was also the Argument of Increasing Decency, which basically held that cruelty was linked to stupidity and that the link between intelligence, imagination, empathy and good-behaviour-as-it-was-generally-understood – i.e. not being cruel to others – was as profound as these matters ever got.”
― Ian M. Banks

“The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“The ship told you the guilty systems recognizes no innocents. I'd say it does. It recognizes the innocence... only to violate it.”
― Ian M. Banks