In the camp situation human beings never remain human beings—the camps were created to this end. All human emotions—love, friendship, envy, love of one’s fellows, mercy, thirst for fame, honesty—fell away from us along with the meat of our muscles…. We had no pride, no vanity, and even jealousy and passion seemed to be Martian concepts…. The only thing left was anger—the most enduring of human emotions.
