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

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

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

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

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

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

- Haniel Long

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

- 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