Reginald John Campbell on free market business competition from the sermon “Christianity and the Social Order” from City Temple Sermons (1903): Unlimited competition is wrong. There is a place for competition, but after a certain point has been reached competition becomes tyranny. […]
From Socialism and the Ethics of Jesus by Henry C. Vedder, 1914 SOURCE: http://www.archive.org/stream/socialismethicso00vedd#page/174/mode/1up By its hostility to Christianity, Anarchy has rejected the only ally that promises the least encouragement to the practical working of its social theories. For, if the time […]
Hans Jonas on the inverse relationship between our powers and our ethics: Now we shiver in the nakedness of a nihilism in which near-omnipotence is paired with near-emptiness, greatest capacity with knowing least for what ends to use it. The Imperative of […]
The decline of the western Church seems fortunate to me in the sense that those who drift away from the church never really belonged to it. There was a crisis in this church. But it was a crisis dating back to the […]
“there is more mercy in the heart of the individual than in the memories of society or its information systems.” SOURCE: Jacques Ellul, Living Faith: Belief and Doubt in a Perilous World (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983), 73. Ellul’s comment is […]
In 1968 when student demonstrations broke out everywhere in France, the great cry of condemnation of the participants was: “They don’t even know what they want. When you ask them what kind of society they’re looking for, all you get is confused […]
To-day the rich man knows in his heart that he is a cancer and not an organ of the State. He differs from all other thieves or parasites for this reason: that the brigand who takes by force wishes his victims to […]
The rich man to-day does not only rule by using private property; he also rules by treating public property as if it were private property. G. K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers (2017) [link to page on archive.org]