How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Nobody will touch anything in your hut, Linbaba! What are you saying? You could put millions of rupees in there, and nobody would touch anything. Gold also you could put in there. The Bank of India is not as safe as this, Linbaba's hut." (2.10.34)
Johnny Cigar is offended by Lin's request that he watch his stuff while he's gone. Underneath his anger is the deep principle that guides slum life, which basically says, "we take care of each other." That principle is also one of necessity, like the one Lin learned on the train (see the quote above). The slumdwellers have got to be able to trust each other with their unlocked huts, or they'd slip into chaos lickety-split.
Quote #5
Abdullah and I were very much alike. [...] But I'd never killed anyone. In that, we were different men. (2.10.156)
Lin draws the line at murder, and while he loves to brag to us about knife fights and fist fights and all other sorts of brawls and bravery, every time he gets the chance to finish someone off he decides not to. It's his personal principle, but not one that he shares with any of Khaderbhai's guys.
Quote #6
"You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them." (2.11.93)
Qasim Ali, the head of the slum, is a wise man and applies his principles willy-nilly, making every problem a teachable moment. For him, justice is a real tool, not just an abstract law. He uses it to find proper punishments that not only make people really sorry they made a mistake, but also teaches them why it was wrong and not to do it again.