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history slavery has been an institution within a social order; slaves were not, like concentration-camp inmates, withdrawn from the sight and hence the protection of their fellow-men; as instruments of labor they had a definite price and as property a definite value.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 »
Hear, then, a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse, In no ignoble verse;... But such as thy own voice did practise here, When thy first-fruits of Poesy were given, To make thyself a welcome inmate there; While yet a young probationer, And candidate of Heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was hi...mself an inmate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning ...to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man,... Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking abo...ut the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6...:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time--weeks, months, years, decades even.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »