"Precisely, And I could make you feel important,
 And you'd imagine it a marvellous cure;
 And you would go on doing such amount of mischief
 As lay within your power - until you came to grief.
 Half of the harm that is done in this world
 Is due to people who want to feel important.
 They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not 
      interest them.
 Or they do not see it, or they justify it
 Because they are involved in the endless struggle
 To think well of themselves."

			- Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly
			  Act 2, The Cocktail Party, T.S. Eliot