A Social Reading of the Old Testament Quotes

“There will be no peace without a lowering of consumerism to match the banishment of arms. For the arms serve primarily either to usurp what belongs to others or to guarantee an arrangement already inequitable. The arms cannot be given up without abandoning swollen appetites as well.”
― Walter Brueggemann, A Social Reading of the Old Testament: Prophetic Approaches to Israel's Communal Life