Quotes

[John]

Use this topic for any quotes that you find memorable, powerful, moving or for any other reason you think they're shareworthy.

[Raul]

Defining Frenetic Intemperance

We can define frenetic intemperance as a restless, explosive and relentless drive inside man that manifests in modern economy by 1) seeking to throw off legitimate restraints; and 2) gratifying disordered passions. It tends to form an economic undercurrent whose action can be likened to that of a faulty accelerator or regulator that takes an otherwise well-functioning machine and throws it out of balance.

[Manuel]

Chapter 20:

Medieval Industrial Revolution

This society was not an enemy of technology. Men in medieval times “introduced machinery into Europe on a scale no civilization had previously known.”

True. I stated the same in this post in my blog:
The myth of the Dark Ages

[Raul]

Chapter 2:

The Origin Of Our Economic Crisis

...frenetic intemperance is much more than a minor defect in economy but rather one manifestation of a greater Revolution.

[Raul]

Chapter 21:

Defining Organic Society

Organic society is a social order oriented toward the common good that naturally and spontaneously develops, allowing man to pursue the perfection of his essentially social nature. In this society, the family attains the plenitude of its action and influence as the social cell or fundamental unit of society. Professional, social, and other intermediary groups between the individual and the State freely exercise their activities according to their own forms and rights.

The State respects the autonomy of regions and intermediary groups, recognizing in each the right to organize according to its social and economic structure, character, and traditions. The State, acting within its own supreme orbit, exercises its sovereign power with honor, vigor, and efficiency. The Church exercises a hallowing influence upon society, by guiding, teaching, and sanctifying.

[Raul]

Chapter 21:

In an organic society, a person is treated as an integral part of society; in a mechanistic society the individual is an interchangeable cog in an organization

My over 20 years in the workplace bears out the reality of our mechanistic society. All in all we're just another brick in the wall. Or just a cog in the machine as I've been made to feel like in almost every profit and non-profit, that is government, organization I've been part of for which I have drawn a paycheck.