Aspect Quote by Hilaire Belloc

“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands (Lutheran, Calvinist,…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has profited by…

— Michael Collins

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

— Dora Russell

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

— Walter Benjamin

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

— Lionel Blue

“America’s industrial history has often been a history of contact and collision between Christianity and capitalism.”

— Heath W Carter

“the sixteenth-century schism was really a belated revolt of the thirteenth-century pessimists.  It was a back-wash of the old Augustinian Puritanism against the Aristotelian…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It was not the businessmen or the industrialists or the workers or the labor unions or the remnants of the feudal aristocracy that began…

— Ayn Rand

“They demanded tolerance, and the right to worship as they wished, but they were never satisfied with that, he thought with exasperation. They believed…

— Ken Follett

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end…

— Juan Goytisolo

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes…

— Will Durant

“The practice of “tolerance,” in the sense of allowing people to dissent, did not of course exist in any part of Christian Europe in…

— Henry Kamen