“They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.”

“...a proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit.”

“Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.”

“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”

“In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was a man who had committed the one unforgivable sin; he was proud of his wealth.”

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”