Painting
Isidre Nonell (1872-1911), Poor people waiting in line for soup

"Bourgeois morality tries to maintain an illusion of altruism, whereas in all other areas bourgeois thinking has long since assumed a theoretical as well as an economic egocentrism."
Peter Sloterdijk, Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), M. Eldred, trans. (1987), p 45