“By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.”

“He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.”

“Uniqueness isn't a virtue. It's a responsibility.”

“We defer to authority figures because they are supposed to know more than we do. If a mistake is made, it's easy to lay the blame at their feet. Ultimately, however, we are responsible for choosing the authority figure we defer to. Choosing to defer to one who urges aggression against others still puts the responsibility on us.”

“Loyalty in the legal world is distorting its own peculiar sense of reality. Loyalty is the legal world's gravity: it holds that world together; it is omnipotent; it cannot be seen but its effects are observable; it can be a powerful force of destruction. As it grows stronger and more powerful, one can only hope such a strange world will be ultimately crushed by its own “weight.”

“Virtue is its own punishment.”