Lawrence

“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

“Even if there were a culture in which there were no professional musicians, everyone would make music as well as they could anyway, without thinking of personal recompense, because music is ambrosia for the soul.”
― Phil Lesh, Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“Oh, God—the lives people try to lead. Oh, God—what a world they try to lead them in!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night