"The prophets ... hurled their "woe be unto you" against those who oppressed and enslaved the poor, those who joined f…"

"It is characteristic of the prophets that they do not receive their mission from any human agency, but seize it."

"As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world’s processes become disenchanted, lose their magical signific…"

"It is above all the impersonal and economically rationalized (but for this very reason ethically irrational) characte…"

"In this rationalized economic world of capitalism, not only do the requirements of religious charity founder against …"

"The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the…"

"The wide chasm separating the inevitabilities of economic life from the Christian ideal ... kept the most devout grou…"

"The fact that people with rigorous ethical standards simply could not take up a business career was not altered by th…"

"The foundering of the postulate of brotherly love in its collision with the loveless realities of the economic domain…"

"Wherever communal religions have rejected all employment of force as an abomination to god and have sought to require…"