因为当我们开始欺骗自己并不是说我们想要某物或需要东西时，这并不是说我们拥有它是一种务实的必要性，而是我们拥有它的道德上的必要性，那是当我们加入时尚的疯子，然后是当我们在陆地上听到歇斯底里的微弱鸣叫，然后在我们遇到麻烦时。我怀疑我们已经在那里了。
(Because when we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there.)