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“The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and deplore: Free competition has destroyed itself; economic dictatorship has supplanted the free market; unbridled ambition for power has likewise succeeded greed for gain; all economic life has become tragically hard, inexorable, and cruel.”

Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)

“We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.”

Healthy Consequence Rose Notes Architecture Destroyed Distinction Gothic Diseased Healthy Love Gothic Architecture

Book:On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...

Source: On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...

“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.”

“I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The Black and the Brown." Is that an accident? I don't think so. We are being designed to be destroyed - and unless we see that, and come together as a people under vicious attack we will suffer the consequences of evil that's in high places.”

People Thinking Said School Together Suffering Evil Black Heard Consequence Accidents Destroyed Brown They Said Vicious High Places Newark

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.”

People Order White Ignorance Right Now Consequence Destroyed Whiteness

Author:Michael Eric Dyson