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If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.