She had learned, in the slums of her childhood, that honest people were never touchy about the matter of being trusted.

There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

Let me be the child in the story and declare that the Emperor is naked — or that America is culturally bankrupt.