"The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant."

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Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

— Aldous Huxley