莫里相信人的内在利益。但是他也看到了他们可以变成什么。他当天晚些时候说，只有在受到威胁时才是卑鄙的，这就是我们的文化所做的。那就是我们的经济。即使是在我们经济中有工作的人也受到威胁，因为他们担心失去他们。当您受到威胁时，您只会为自己寻找。你开始赚钱。这都是这种文化的一部分。
(Morrie believed in the inherent good of people. But he also saw what they could become. People are only mean when they're threatened, he said later that day, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.)