“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”
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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
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The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
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You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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