• The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

    Adam Gopnik: The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
    "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.