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that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master; for the machine would p
... See moreG. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The moral conduct of the average man was thus deprived of its planless and unsystematic character and subjected to a consistent method for conduct as a whole.
Max Weber • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
He was even in many ways very modern, which some rather erroneously suppose to be the same as being human;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The Socialist-led government lowered the maximum workweek from thirty-nine hours to thirty-five hours; the supposed logic was that if all people with jobs work fewer hours, then there will be work left over for the unemployed to do.
Charles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
his greatest work may yet prove to be the perpetuation of the joyful mystery of Christmas.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
If democratic socialists are to make a contribution to the course of events, they must cease to think in terms of abstractions. They must give meaning to socialist ideals in pragmatic and realistic policies to produce changes for the better in the daily lives of their peoples.