Do they really love being shouted at to get off the road because the President, a minister or a regional commissioner is taking an afternoon drive? (…) Do they really feel a surge of pride and patriotism every time they are expected to stop what they are doing and stand at attention just become some newly-appointed official whom they many not even have seen before is being serenaded with the national anthem? (…) Dignity does not need pomposity to uphold it: and pomposity in all its forms is wrong. 
Je, wanapenda (wananchi wa kawaida) kweli kupigiwa kelele za kuondoka barabarani kwa sababu rais, waziri au mkuu wa mkoa anaendeshwa mchana? (…) Je, wanajisikia fahari na uzalendo kila wakati wanapotakiwa kuacha walichokuwa wanafanya na kusimama wima kwa sababu tu mkubwa mteule mpya ambaye huenda hata hawajawahi kumwona hapo kabla anapigiwa wimbo wa taifa? (…) Utu hauhitaji ubinafsi kuuondoa: na ubinafsi wa namna zake zote ni mbaya.