Civilization Quote by Jacques Maritain

Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall not be]…

— Pope Pius XII

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

— Joseph Addison

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest…

— George Gilder

“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt

The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry

— Charles Fourier

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot…

— Bill Vaughan

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without…

— Emma Goldman