Let not the humbug of vanity, lodged in personal, institutional or national spaces, encumber us in our collective quest for a better world.

A British schoolteacher expressed the sentiment well in 1910 We suspect the man who talks patriotism and imperialism, just as we suspect him who talks religion or any of the things that are of deepest value in life. We think him either a humbug or a shallow person who has not realized the inadequacy of words to express what is deepest.