We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.