Anthem
Important Quotations Explained
1. There
was no pain in their eyes and no knowledge of the agony of their
body. There was only joy in them, and pride, a pride holier than
it is fit for human pride to be.
2. “Many
men in the Homes of the Scholars have had strange new ideas in the
past . . . but when the majority of their brother Scholars voted
against them, they abandoned their ideas, as all men must.”
3. “[I]f
this should lighten the toil of men . . . then it is a great evil,
for men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men.”







