These are the top six themes from our poll.
There was a huge drop off in votes after number six.
There was a pleasant understanding of the role of money and corporations in the readers' selections.
“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead