Abundance, Generosity, and the State Quotes

“(...) He argued that this principle manifests itself in the divine gifts of love and truth, without which human life and authentic fraternity are strictly impossible. Benedict suggested that the principle of gratuitousness also determines economic life and would shape it much more thoroughly than at present if it were allowed to develop unhampered. And he called all people of goodwill “to demonstrate, in thinking and behaviour, . . . that in commercial relationships the principle of gratuitousness and the logic of gift as an expression of fraternity can and must find their place within normal economic activity” (2009, sec. 36).”
― Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Abundance, Generosity, and the State: An Inquiry into Economic Principles