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“The time when, in a given country, the syndicate can ripen into a trust may be hastened through the protection of its domestic market against foreign competitors by a high tariff. In such a case the # of competitors is diminished & the domestic producers can more easily come together, establishing a monopoly,& thanks to ‘Protection of home industry,’ fleece the national consumer to their hearts’ content.”

“The capitalist system is by no means the product of political rights/laws. Instead it is the needs of the system that have brought forth the laws that are now in force. These laws do not create the exploitation of the proletariat; they only provide for the smooth running of the exploitative system..As this friction grows gradually worse, the greater becomes the need for a strong state power to enforce the law.”

The educated “have ceased to be the leaders of the capitalist class and have become rather their defenders. Place-hunting takes more and more of their energies. Their first care is, not the development of their intellect, but the sale of it.”

pg96 “But the technologies that spawned cloud capital have proved more revolutionary than any of their predecessors. Through them, cloud capital has developed capacities that previous types of capital goods never had. It has become at once an attention-holder, a desire-manufacturer, a driver of proletarian labor, an elicitor of massive free labor, & the creator of totally privatized digital transaction spaces”

pg173 Heschel - “There is an evil which most of us condone and are even guilty of: indifference to evil. We remain neutral, impartial, and not easily moved by the wrongs done unto other people… God is not indifferent to evil! He is always concerned, He is personally affected by what man does to man… Man’s sense of injustice is a poor analogy to God’s sense of injustice.”

pg141 “Choose the most loving path. Jesus himself would probably do the same thing in your situation. Indeed, he is using you to do it.”

pg161 “Since we are small and finite, we honor God more by trying to love as he loves than by trying to know all that he knows.”