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Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and forces which now organize industry and so-called justice, violate the best instincts of mankind.

— George D. Herron Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

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It is only the densest ethical ignorance that talks about a "Christian business" life; for business is now intrinsically evil.

Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most worthwhile to the common life and to himself.

Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

Whoever says that a man can live the Christian life, while at the same time successfully participating in the present order of things, is either profound in the lack of knowledge, or else he deliberately lies.

Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.

Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

Between Caesar and Jesus (1899)

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