Anyone who’s really fighting for justice must live as a private citizen and not as a public figure if he’s going to survive even a short time.

no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from taking place in the state to which he belongs, can possibly escape with his life. The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Private lives are more important than public reputations.

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

Then there is the man with a conscience, who fights single-handedly against heavy odds in situations that call for a decision.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

And he judged of others by himself, not believing in what he saw, and always believing that every man had his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy and under the cover of night. All personal life rested on secrecy, and possibly it was partly on that account that civilised man was so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

[James] Joyce... an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized....

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.