Michael

“the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

“the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the market system would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself. All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the economic system.”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
― Albert Camus

“The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.”
― Epicurus, Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings