- Society values and laws can be in conflict with higher moral values
- People must live outside of society to be truly free.
- Gullible people are partially responsible for their own deception
- People tend to behave irrationally and even cruelly in large groups
- Greed can destroy lives
- Freedom means different things to different people.
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn...It's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Ernest Hemingway