“By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man”
“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still leftwith the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.”
“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
“Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
“Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.”
“Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.”