Patrick Choi

“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”
― Edward Snowden

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit