"There are no honest goods to buy or to sell; adulterated foods, shoddy manufacture of all that we wear, the underpaid labor and consumed life that make every garment a texture of falsehood, the hideous competitive war that slays its millions where swords and cannons slay their tens, all unite to baffle and mock the efforts of the awakened conscience at every turn, and make the industrial system seem like the triumph of hell and madness on the earth. Only by a sort of terrible daily denial of his spiritual self, a crucifixion of the principles by which he longs to organize his life, can a man wrest a stained and insecure livelihood from this terrible war for bread which we call industry."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
p. 26-27
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_D._Herron
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
George D. Herron
George Davis Herron (1862 – 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer, and Christian socialist activist.
14 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by George D. Herron →
Related Quotes
"The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to t…"
"All that is good in civilization must be for the equal use of all, in order that each man may make his life most wort…"
"No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the wor…"
"Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and f…"
"Without regard to his conscience, the economic system involves a man in the guilt of the moral and physical death of …"
"This railway system practically administers the government of the United States, in all things that concern the syste…"
"The only possible innocence that remains to me, while I pay forced tribute to the system, while I profit by its corru…"
"I can no longer clothe myself, whether in good clothes or cheap, without the likelihood that my clothes are made unde…"
"Whatever I do, whichever way I turn, I can neither feed nor clothe my family, nor take part in public affairs as a ci…"
"The economic system denies the right of the sincerest and most sympathetic to keep their hands out of the blood of th…"