To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

- Haniel Long

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life…

- Haniel Long

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most importan…

- Haniel Long

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If…

- Haniel Long

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should …

- Haniel Long

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

- Haniel Long

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalt…

- Haniel Long

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk i…

- Haniel Long

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

- Haniel Long