Jano

“The form of life Jesus offers his followers is not one of social integration but a scandal to the priestly and political establishment. It is a question of being homeless, propertyless, peripatetic, celibate, socially marginal, disdainful of kinsfolk, averse to material possessions, a friend of outcasts and pariahs, a thorn in the side of the Establishment and a scourge of the rich and powerful. Indeed, Pierre Bayle points to this fact as an argument against the political necessity of religious faith. Christianity, he remarks, is no basis for civil order, since Jesus proclaims that he has come to pitch society into turmoil.47”
― Terry Eagleton, Culture and the Death of God

“Redistributive effects and increasing social inequality have in fact been such a persistent feature of neoliberalization as to be regarded as structural to the whole project. Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, after careful reconstruction of the data, have concluded that neoliberalization was from the very beginning a project to achieve the restoration of class power.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“What the neo-conservatives do is to change the ‘peculiar ways’ in which such questions enter into debate. Their aim is to counteract the dissolving effect of the chaos of individual interests that neoliberalism typically produces. They in no way depart from the neoliberal agenda of a construction or restoration of a dominant class power. But they seek legitimacy for that power, as well as social control through construction of a climate of consent around a coherent set of moral values.”
― David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“y así es forzoso que no sólo sea brevísima, sino miserable la vida de aquellos que con gran trabajo adquieren lo que con mayor han de poseer. Consiguen con su sudor lo que desean, y poseen con ansias lo que adquirieron con trabajo; y con esto no cuidan del tiempo, que pasando una vez, jamás ha de volver.”
― Seneca, De la brevedad de la vida