“What degradation lay in being young.”
“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”
“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
“What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.”
“All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.”
“What can ever equal the memory of being young together?”