Status Updates From Les Carnets de la maison morte

"Every man, whoever he may be, and however low he may have fallen, requires, if only instinctively and unconsciously, that respect be given to his dignity as a human being. The prisoner is aware he is a prisoner... But no brands, no fetters, can make him forget that he is a man. And since he is a human being, it follows that he must be treated as a human being."