Reclaiming Our Power
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
Category: Money, Sex, Power & Faith
Portions of the book Money, Sex, Power & Faith by Steve McAllister
Economics Beyond Money
“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent.” – Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Rethinking What’s Been Thunk
“If you understand others, you are smart. If you understand yourself ,you are illuminated. If you overcome others, you are powerful. If you overcome yourself, you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied, you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don’t lose your objectives, you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.” – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Ollie Ollie Oligarchy
“I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died” – Malcolm Forbes
Money Returns To The Virtual World
“Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Gotta Have Faith
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” – G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
An Imprisoned Population
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” – Nelson Mandela
#metoo
“There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equality will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride” – Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Economy of War
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The Finesse of Finance – Part Two
The problem is as Edward Abbey stated it: “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”