-It is a way of life, not poverty per se, that kills.
-When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
-The squalor in England was not economic, but spiritual, moral, and cultural.
-There is no self-discipline, but rather an imperative obedience to impulse.
-The life of the slum was not the only life there was.
-Man is at least as much a problem-creating as a problem-solving animal.
-If no absorbing interest has developed in childhood and adolescence, such an interest is soon manufactured from the materials at hand.
-Life is a biography.
-The absence of standards, as Ortega y Gasset remarked, is the beginning of barbarism.
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