And at the end

«A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die».

Bernard Berenson

Disconnect between what we profess and what we do

«There seems to be a disconnect between our professed love of democracy and how we’re so willing to accept a dictatorship every day we show up for work»

(Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, 2009)

Fear of poverty

«The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.»

(William James)