Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.