Bankruptcy

"It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable, treatable diseases and hunger. That's mad, that is mad...Bankruptcy is a serious business and we all know people who have lost their jobs, but this is moral bankruptcy." -Bono

Enough Is Enough

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When Money Becomes Sacred

"Money is sacred, as everyone knows. So then must be the hunger for it and the means to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment...And so we spread death everywhere. But that sacred hunger...justifies all. The trade is lawful, they say, and that is enough. Well, it is not enough for me."

-from Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

What's Mine Is God's (but not yours)

We are perfectly willing to say that our possessions belong to God and not to us, unless God asks us to give them to somebody else.

We Call That Cancer

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before...increased production has become an end in itself...growth is for the sake of growth and is not determined by any overarching social purpose. And that, of course, is an exact account of the phenomenon which, when it occurs in the human body, is called cancer.

In the long perspective of history, it would be difficult to deny that the exuberant capitalism of the last 250 years will be diagnosed in the future as a desperately dangerous case of cancer in the body of human society -if indeed this cancer has not been terminal and there are actually survivors around to make the diagnosis.

-from Foolishness To The Greeks by Leslie Newbigin

Getting Away With Murder

If you want to get away with murder, attack a people, not a person.

The Strange Disparity

The two staggering facts in the life of the prophet are: God's turning to him, and man's turning away from him. This is often his lot: to be chosen by God and to be rejected by the people. The word of God, so clear to him, is unintelligible to them. 

What baffles the prophet is the disparity between the power and impact of God and the immense indifference, unyieldingness, sluggishness, and inertia of the heart. God's thunderous voice is shaking heaven and earth, and man does not hear the faintest sound. The Lord roars like a lion. His word is like fire, like a hammer which breaks the rocks in pieces, and the people go about unmoved, undisturbed, unaware.

-from The Prophets by Abraham Heschel