The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.
Reinhold NiebuhrAs racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
Reinhold NiebuhrGoodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Reinhold Niebuhr