Adam Bender > Adam's Quotes

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The thing about the Surveillance State is that it doesn’t work very well; cameras break down, recognition algorithms give false positives or false negatives. But it works just well enough, if you have enough processing power, to spot you and Ben together in Dortmund and in Amsterdam.”
― Dave Hutchinson, Europe at Dawn

“It never ceased to amaze Shenk that it was his brand of lawyering that was considered banditry, scorned as “ambulance chasing,” when men like Riggs could blamelessly hitch their wagons to multibillion-dollar companies like Wellbridge, whose business model was highly sophisticated bloodsucking: collect and collect and collect, and only pay when forced; when squeezed; when pushed to the wall by the heroic likes of Jay Shenk.”
― Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

“The main reason Americans buy guns is to tell themselves the story of the failure of government.”
― Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Truly yours,
Albert Camus”

I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
― Albert Camus

“The unrealized tragedies of life consumed me.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter