'You'll fill these bottles with water and leaves, and sell them as medicine?'
'I can't be free without money.'
'Can you be free without truth?' (Kung Fu 26)(See also [95], [144])
"Master, is this not all about life? Are we not sold rubbish and sham, all day long?"
"Indeed, we have teachers that cannot teach, barely write, scientists that under the pressure of: 'publicate or perish', either cook or crook their data, or ramble off sophisticated looking articles that mean exactly nothing. We have street planners that plan, so that no plan would be better, traffic rules that are worse than no rules, and in all layers of the population an acceptance of sham and emptiness. It is because of dr.Peter's principle that says: 'people get promoted until they have reached their level of incompetence'. It means that they are stuck there, and also, that we are stuck with them. It is sad because they make the decisions. Yet, nothing describes the awful plight we are in so clear as the fact, stressed by Spencer (Wells etc. ) of we, needing diplomas and certificates for everything thinkable except the most difficult and crucial job. Indeed, you need them for selling newspapers, piloting a yacht or a Boeing 707. Yet the job of bringing up a new world-citizen, far more important than a hundred 707's, is free to every yokel."