“Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. William Shakespeare
“Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life…. But what is that something?Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nation and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.Eugene B. Sledge (Jr.)
“If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.Jean-Paul Sartre