Forced labor as a punishment is limited as to time and intensity. The convict retains his rights over his body; he is not absolute...ly tortured and he is not absolutely dominated. Banishment banishes only from one part of the world to another part of the world, also inhabited by human beings; it does not exclude from the human world altogether. Throughout history slavery has been an institution within a social order; slaves were not, like concentration-camp inmates, withdrawn from the sight and hence the protection of their fellow-men; as instruments of labor they had a definite price and as property a definite value. The concentration-camp inmate has no price, because he can always be replaced; nobody knows to whom he belongs, because he is never seen. From the point of view of normal society he is absolutely superfluous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were always ...in my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the cold of Europe, under prudish northern fogs, except when slaughter is afoot, you only glimpse the crawling cruelty of your ...fellow men. But their rottenness rises to the surface as soon as they are tickled by the hideous fevers of the tropics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is L...ove and Christ and Lenin were all Love!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, a...nd all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendenci...es and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow- me...n, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were to select a watchword that I would have every young man write above his door and on his heart, it would be that good wor...d "Fidelity." I know of no better. The man who meets every obligation to the family, to society, to the State, to his country, and his God, to the very best measure of his strength and ability, cannot fail of that assurance and quietness that comes of a good conscience, and will seldom fail of the approval of his fellow-men, and will never fail of the reward which is promised to his faithfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »