I don't believe in fear of divine vengeance, and I do believe in justice and equality.... ~ Ch. 57 - Sinclair Lewis

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. ~ Ch. 25

So debated Doremus, like some hundreds of thousands of other craftsmen, teachers, lawyers, what-not, in some dozens of countries under a dictatorship, who were aware enough to resent the tyranny, conscientious enough not to take its bribes cynically, yet not so abnormally courageous as to go willingly to exile or dungeon or chopping-block—particularly when they "had wives and families to support."