Write As The Wind Blows

The Larger The Unit Of Capital Present, The Easier The Transaction Called Emission Of Credit. Centralized Lending Of This Kind (which Is Today Universal) Actively Promotes The Absorption Of The Small Man By The Great, The Reduction Of Small Property Owners To A Proletarian Condition.

In Soft Deluding Lies Let Fools Delight. A Shadow Marks Our Days, Which End In Night.

The Term "socialism" Becomes A Common Label For The Various Theories Of Attack Upon The Principle Of Property, The Various Policies Of Communal Control At The Expense Of The Family And Individual Freedom.

In The Same Way The Eminence Attaching To The Mere Possession Of Great Wealth Disappoints Us Nine Times Out Of Ten, Especially If The Wealth Has Been Accumulated Rapidly. For Great Wealth Is Accumulated Rapidly By Cunning Or Chance, Or A Mixture Of The Two. Cunning Has Nothing To Do With High Qualities; It Is Rather A Presumption Against Them; While Chance Has Nothing To Do With Them Either. Therefore It Is That Men Are Always Complaining After Meeting So-and-so, That He Seemed To Be Astonishingly Stupid, Though He Made A Million In Ten Years And Started As A Pauper.

Protest Against Industrial Capitalism From One Aspect Or Another Is Universal: So Was The Protest Against The Condition Of European Religion At The Beginning Of The Sixteenth Century.