We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
Stanley HauerwasIf I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
Stanley HauerwasA social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?
Stanley Hauerwas